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KBOW · BOW

Bartow Executive Airport

27.94340°N

-81.78340°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 2.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 1.9%

Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW/BOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Bartow, FL. It features 4 runways with the longest being 5,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 32 arrivals and 29 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21h ago

Temp

90°F

Wind

6 kts

130°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KBOW 041755Z AUTO 13006KT 10SM TS FEW045 FEW055 SCT065 32/25 A2999 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT S AND SW PWINO

Runways

4 installed

5,001 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

09L

29% of ops

505 land · 370 TO

17% of ops

295 land · 18 TO

27R

12% of ops

211 land · 195 TO

10% of ops

166 land · 47 TO

9% of ops

159 land · 21 TO

27L

8% of ops

144 land · 47 TO

Runway 09L carries 29% of operations (505 landings, 370 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 14 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

09L 505 landings

UA 4%

14 295 landings

UA 19%

27R 211 landings

UA 3%

23 166 landings

UA 16%

05 159 landings

UA 12%

27L 144 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 09L show a 4% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 505 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

58.1

flights/day · 1,742 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

86%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 58.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (58.0 vs 60.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (29% of 1,300 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	121.200	—
TWR	121.200	0730-1730
TWR	121.500	0730-1730
GND	121.900	0730-1730
APCH	119.900	—
APCH	120.650	—
APCH	290.300	—
UNICOM	122.950	—
AWOS	123.775	—
LCL/P	121.200	0730-1730
LCL/S	121.500	0730-1730
EMERG	121.500	0730-1730

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZMA
Mag var:: 4° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 9 AM · 1 movement every 360 s

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