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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 150.0%
DEP / DAY
3
▲ 0.0%

Franklin Field (KF72) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,240 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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

Current weather

From KDWA, 30 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

43m ago
Temp
59°F
Wind
9 kts
150°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KDWA 150815Z AUTO 15009KT 10SM CLR 15/14 A3001 RMK AO2

Runways

2 installed

3,240 FT MAX
09/27
3,100 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit
18/36
3,240 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

27
55% of ops
591 land · 697 TO
18
25% of ops
263 land · 140 TO
36
11% of ops
117 land · 6 TO
09
9% of ops
100 land · 17 TO
Runway 27 carries 55% of operations (591 landings, 697 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

27 591 landings
UA 11%
18 263 landings
UA 24%
36 117 landings
UA 4%
09 100 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 27 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (64 UA events from 591 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
13.2
flights/day · 396 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 4pm · 5pm
Day vs night
58%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 13.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (10.1 vs 15.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

96 · 25%
56 · 15%
56 · 15%
52 · 14%
27 · 7%
20 · 5%
Activity is led by (25% of 383 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

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
WestSacRob
2/2/2008
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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