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📍 Franklin⬆ 21 ft2 runways

KF72 ·

Franklin Field

38.30490°N

-121.43000°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 7.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 10.9%

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

3,240 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

42% of ops

352 land · 449 TO

38% of ops

325 land · 184 TO

11% of ops

95 land · 24 TO

9% of ops

76 land · 2 TO

Runway 27 carries 42% of operations (352 landings, 449 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 18 at 38%.

Approach quality

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

27 352 landings

UA 9%

18 325 landings

UA 32%

09 95 landings

UA 12%

36 76 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 27 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (31 UA events from 352 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

11.5

flights/day · 345 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 9pm

Day vs night

52%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–9pm local, averaging 11.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (9.2 vs 12.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 307 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 16° E

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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