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KF72 ·

Franklin Field

38.30490°N

-121.43000°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 11.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 5.0%

Franklin Field (KF72) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,123 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Visib

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Ceil

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Runways

2 installed

3,123 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

52% of ops

952 land · 979 TO

27% of ops

495 land · 189 TO

10% of ops

191 land · 12 TO

10% of ops

190 land · 8 TO

Runway 27 carries 52% of operations (952 landings, 979 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

27 952 landings

UA 13%

18 495 landings

UA 23%

36 191 landings

UA 6%

09 190 landings

UA 24%

Approaches to 27 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (126 UA events from 952 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

12.1

flights/day · 362 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

55%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 12.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (9.6 vs 13.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 333 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 16° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

WestSacRob

02/02/2008

This is the "training airport" for the KSAC flight schools

This airport is about 10 nm S of KSAC. This is where the pilots flying out of KSAC (including me) go to practice touch-and-go's, emergency landings and so forth. It can be quite busy on VFR weekends.

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