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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
6
▲ 4.8%
DEP / DAY
5
▼ 29.2%

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 6 arrivals and 5 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 KMHR, 19 mi away (KF72 does not publish METAR)

1h ago
Temp
62°F
Wind
5 kts
330°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KMHR 071455Z AUTO 33005KT 10SM CLR 17/09 A2996 RMK AO2 T01660086 53009 $

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
42% of ops
344 land · 423 TO
18
38% of ops
312 land · 182 TO
09
11% of ops
89 land · 23 TO
36
9% of ops
70 land · 3 TO
Runway 27 carries 42% of operations (344 landings, 423 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

27 344 landings
UA 10%
18 312 landings
UA 30%
09 89 landings
UA 10%
36 70 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 27 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (35 UA events from 344 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
10.9
flights/day · 328 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 6pm · 7pm
Day vs night
54%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 10.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (11.1 vs 11.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

73 · 25%
39 · 13%
35 · 12%
30 · 10%
21 · 7%
21 · 7%
Activity is led by (25% of 290 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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