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Franklin Regional Airport

36.69810°N
-76.90380°W
ARR / DAY
1
23.1%
DEP / DAY
1
0.0%

Franklin Regional Airport (KFKN/FKN) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, VA, 33 mi south west of Newport News. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,977 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago
Temp
81°F
Wind
3 kts
160°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KFKN 280035Z AUTO 16003KT 10SM CLR 27/21 A2996 RMK AO2 T02660213

Runway intelligence

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

27
60% of ops
31 land · 1 TO
32
25% of ops
13 land · 4 TO
14
10% of ops
5 land · 3 TO
09
6% of ops
3 land · 11 TO
Runway 27 carries 60% of operations (31 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 32 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

27 31 landings
UA 3%
32 13 landings
UA 15%
14 5 landings
UA 0%
09 3 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 31 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
2.4
flights/day · 71 total
Busy hour (local)
1pm
also 6pm · 3pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 2.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.4 vs 2.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (37% of 71 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
APCH 127.900
APCH 269.425
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 124.675
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDC
Mag var:
9° W
Fuel:
100LL
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