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Franklin Field

38.30490°N
-121.43000°W
ARR / DAY
1
▼ 89.5%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 84.2%

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 1 arrivals and 1 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)

19m ago
Temp
84°F
Wind
5 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KSAC 261853Z 17005KT 10SM CLR 29/12 A2998 RMK AO2 SLP151 T02890117

Runways

2 installed

3,123 FT MAX
09/27
3,031 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit
18/36
3,123 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

27
49% of ops
576 land · 554 TO
18
32% of ops
373 land · 166 TO
36
10% of ops
119 land · 6 TO
09
10% of ops
115 land · 8 TO
Runway 27 carries 49% of operations (576 landings, 554 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

27 576 landings
UA 15%
18 373 landings
UA 20%
36 119 landings
UA 7%
09 115 landings
UA 23%
Approaches to 27 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (84 UA events from 576 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
9.4
flights/day · 283 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 7pm · 4pm
Day vs night
55%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 9.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (7.6 vs 10.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

78 · 30%
46 · 18%
27 · 10%
21 · 8%
18 · 7%
13 · 5%
Activity is led by (30% of 261 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
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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