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KEKY ·

Bessemer Airport

33.31290°N

-86.92590°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 36.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 36.0%

Bessemer Airport (KEKY) is a small general aviation airport located in Bessemer, AL, 16 mi south west of Birmingham. It features 1 runway measuring 6,007 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 15 arrivals and 16 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

23h ago

Temp

81°F

Wind

3 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KEKY 140656Z AUTO 14003KT 10SM CLR 27/23 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP153 T02670233 $

Runways

1 installed

6,007 FT MAX

05/23

6,007 ft × 100

ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

369 land · 168 TO

49% of ops

351 land · 106 TO

Runway 05 carries 51% of operations (369 landings, 168 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

05 369 landings

UA 4%

23 351 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 05 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (13 UA events from 369 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

32.0

flights/day · 960 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 1pm · 4pm

Day vs night

70%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 32.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (21.8 vs 37.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (47% of 775 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
APCH	124.900	—
APCH	351.850	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.825	—
OTHER	123.750	—
CD/P	123.750	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 3° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

12/31/2016

Wonderful Airport

Very helpful airport manager

Anonymous

3/6/2016

fuel

can I drive up and buy 1oo or better octane fuel from you guys and how much per gal is it.

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