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Capital City Airport

38.18250°N
-84.90470°W
ARR / DAY
5
▼ 23.9%
DEP / DAY
6
▼ 11.4%

Capital City Airport (KFFT/FFT) is a small general aviation airport located in Frankfort, KY, 26 mi west of Lexington-Fayette. It features 1 runway measuring 5,005 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

57m ago
Temp
43°F
Wind
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Visib
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Ceil
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METAR KFFT 120553Z AUTO A2966 RMK AO2 SLPNO 6//// 55003 PWINO FZRANO PNO $

Runways

1 installed

5,005 FT MAX
06/24
5,005 ft × 100
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

25
58% of ops
170 land · 171 TO
07
42% of ops
125 land · 132 TO
Runway 25 carries 58% of operations (170 landings, 171 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 42%.

Approach quality

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

25 170 landings
UA 17%
07 125 landings
UA 10%
Approaches to 25 show a 17% unstable-approach rate (29 UA events from 170 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
16.2
flights/day · 486 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 6pm · 4pm
Day vs night
73%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 16.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (16.8 vs 16.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 267 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 120.750 —
APCH 298.900 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
ASOS 119.275 —
OTHER 109.400 —
FFT VOR 109.400 —
OTHER 118.650 —
CD/P 118.650 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZID
Mag var:
5° W
Fuel:
100LL, A+

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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 06:50 UTC