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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 26.2%
DEP / DAY
3
▼ 45.5%

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 4 arrivals and 3 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

From KSAC, 15 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

40m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
8 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSAC 192125Z AUTO 20008KT 10SM CLR 20/07 A2988 RMK T02000070 MADISHF

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
46% of ops
197 land · 193 TO
18
32% of ops
136 land · 78 TO
36
14% of ops
60 land · 32 TO
09
9% of ops
38 land · 14 TO
Runway 27 carries 46% of operations (197 landings, 193 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

27 197 landings
UA 12%
18 136 landings
UA 24%
36 60 landings
UA 8%
09 38 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 27 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (24 UA events from 197 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
10.6
flights/day · 319 total
Busy hour (local)
11pm
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
45%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–11pm local, averaging 10.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (9.1 vs 11.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

79 · 27%
43 · 15%
42 · 15%
27 · 9%
19 · 7%
18 · 6%
Activity is led by (27% of 289 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
2/3/2008
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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