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KF53 ·

Franklin County Airport

33.21540°N

-95.23740°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Franklin County Airport (KF53) is a small general aviation airport located in Mount Vernon, TX, 60 mi north of Tyler. It features 1 runway measuring 3,900 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KPRX, 32 mi away (KF53 does not publish METAR)

46m ago

Temp

86°F

Wind

8 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KPRX 291555Z AUTO 16008KT 120V190 10SM CLR 30/18 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP134 T03000183 PNO

Runways

1 installed

3,900 FT MAX

13/31

3,900 ft × 60

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

59% of ops

13 land · 3 TO

41% of ops

9 land · 1 TO

Runway 31 carries 59% of operations (13 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

31 13 landings

UA 0%

13 9 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 31 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 13 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

1.1

flights/day · 32 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 12am · 3pm

Day vs night

56%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 1.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (0.9 vs 1.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

5 · 17%

3 · 10%

2 · 7%

Activity is led by (17% of 30 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
OTHER	132.025	—
CUMBY RC	132.025	—
OTHER	317.750	—
CUMBY RC	317.750	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZFW
Mag var:: 6° E

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