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📍 Forest City⬆ 1,229 ft2 runways
KFXY · FXY

Forest City Municipal Airport

43.23470°N
-93.62410°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 50.0%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 550.0%

Forest City Municipal Airport (KFXY/FXY) is a small general aviation airport located in Forest City, IA, 79 mi south west of Rochester. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,806 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago
Temp
63°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KFXY 280035Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC006 17/16 A3012 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

33
52% of ops
11 land · 1 TO
27
29% of ops
6 land · 3 TO
15
10% of ops
2 land · 3 TO
09
10% of ops
2 land · 2 TO
Runway 33 carries 52% of operations (11 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

33 11 landings
UA 9%
27 6 landings
UA 0%
15 2 landings
UA 0%
09 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 33 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 11 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 · 50 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 1pm · 6pm
Day vs night
56%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 6pm–8pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (1.6 vs 1.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 50 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 123.925 —
OTHER 122.600 —
MASON CI 122.600 —
OTHER 127.300 —
MASON CI 127.300 —
OTHER 257.675 —
MASON CI 257.675 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
3° E
Fuel:
100LL
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