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KBXK · BXK

Buckeye Municipal Airport

33.42240°N
-112.68632°W
ARR / DAY
20
▼ 26.6%
DEP / DAY
16
▼ 28.5%

Buckeye Municipal Airport (KBXK/BXK) is a small general aviation airport located in Buckeye, AZ, 25 mi south west of Surprise. It features 3 runways with the longest being 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 20 arrivals and 16 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1h ago
Temp
113°F
Wind
5 kts
210°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KBXK 252335Z AUTO 21005KT 10SM CLR 45/09 A2978 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

5,500 FT MAX
05/23
3,310 ft × 300
ASP○ unlitCLOSED
11/29
3,400 ft × 270
ASP○ unlitCLOSED
17/35
5,500 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

17
80% of ops
885 land · 266 TO
35
13% of ops
149 land · 70 TO
11
5% of ops
54 land · 0 TO
05
1% of ops
9 land · 1 TO
23
1% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
29
0% of ops
2 land · 1 TO
Runway 17 carries 80% of operations (885 landings, 266 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 13%.

Approach quality

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

17 885 landings
UA 10%
35 149 landings
UA 7%
11 54 landings
UA 26%
05 9 landings
UA 11%
23 8 landings
UA 0%
29 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (86 UA events from 885 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
40.9
flights/day · 1,228 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 6pm · 5pm
Day vs night
67%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 40.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (38.6 vs 43.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

690 · 60%
108 · 9%
76 · 7%
49 · 4%
28 · 2%
26 · 2%
Activity is led by (60% of 1,144 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.975 —
APCH 118.150 —
APCH 119.200 —
APCH 125.450 —
APCH 126.800 —
APCH 263.125 —
APCH 269.600 —
APCH 281.450 —
APCH 363.125 —
UNICOM 122.975 —
AWOS 119.625 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAB
Elevation:
1,033 ft
Mag var:
13° E
Fuel:
100LL, A1

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 01:22 UTC