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KBEC · BEC

Beech Factory Airport

37.69450°N

-97.21500°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 30.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.6%

Beech Factory Airport (KBEC/BEC) is a small general aviation airport located in Wichita, KS. It features 1 runway measuring 8,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 9 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago

Temp

61°F

Wind

6 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBEC 230435Z AUTO 14006KT 10SM CLR 16/08 A3018 RMK AO2 T01620083

Runways

1 installed

8,000 FT MAX

18/36

8,000 ft × 100

CON● LIT

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

86% of ops

325 land · 335 TO

14% of ops

51 land · 87 TO

Runway 19 carries 86% of operations (325 landings, 335 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 14%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

19 325 landings

UA 10%

01 51 landings

UA 10%

Approaches to 19 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (34 UA events from 325 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

36.0

flights/day · 1,081 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 2pm · 6pm

Day vs night

63%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 36.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (18.8 vs 44.3 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (28% of 559 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	126.800	—
TWR	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
TWR	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI
GND	121.700	0700-1730 MON-FRI
APCH	134.800	—
APCH	269.100	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
AWOS	119.450	—
EMERG	121.500	0700-1730 MON-FRI
OTHER	125.000	—
CD/P	125.000	—
LCL/P	126.800	0700-1730 MON-FRI
LCL/P	313.600	0700-1730 MON-FRI

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 4° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

david

11/15/2007

Home of Beechcraft

As the airport name suggests, this is where Bonanzas, Barons, etc. take off from the first time. It's only 2 miles from Cessna's home field (KCEA).

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