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Fairbury Municipal Airport

40.18300°N
-97.16930°W
ARR / DAY
0
81.8%
DEP / DAY
0
95.2%

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.

Current weather

From KLNK, 51 mi away (KFBY does not publish METAR)

26m ago
Temp
86°F
Wind
8 kts
200°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KLNK 260254Z 20008KT 10SM CLR 30/26 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP111 T03000256 53002 $

Runway intelligence

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

17
64% of ops
39 land · 1 TO
29
26% of ops
16 land · 0 TO
11
5% of ops
3 land · 8 TO
35
5% of ops
3 land · 28 TO
Runway 17 carries 64% of operations (39 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 26%.

Approach quality

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

17 39 landings
UA 0%
29 16 landings
UA 0%
11 3 landings
UA 0%
35 3 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 39 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
1.7
flights/day · 51 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 11am · 4pm
Day vs night
82%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.5 vs 1.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (20% of 51 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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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