Airports / KFBY / Fairbury Municipal AirportIATA FBYPoor ground coverage
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📍 Fairbury⬆ 1,479 ft2 runways
KFBY · FBY

Fairbury Municipal Airport

40.18300°N
-97.16930°W
ARR / DAY
0
0.0%
DEP / DAY
1
300.0%

Fairbury Municipal Airport (KFBY/FBY) is a small general aviation airport located in Fairbury, NE, 50 mi south west of Lincoln. It features 2 runways with the longest being 3,700 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 0 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

Temp
Wind
Visib
Ceil

Runway intelligence

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

17
44% of ops
20 land · 0 TO
29
42% of ops
19 land · 0 TO
11
9% of ops
4 land · 20 TO
35
4% of ops
2 land · 22 TO
Runway 17 carries 44% of operations (20 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 42%.

Approach quality

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

17 20 landings
UA 0%
29 19 landings
UA 0%
11 4 landings
UA 0%
35 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 20 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
1.2
flights/day · 37 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 4pm · 11pm
Day vs night
59%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–11pm local, averaging 1.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (1.6 vs 1.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 37 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
UNICOM 122.700
OTHER 126.400
MARYSVIL 126.400
OTHER 293.000
FBY NDB 293.000
OTHER 317.700
MARYSVIL 317.700
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
6° E
Fuel:
100LL
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