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Great Bend Municipal Airport

38.34430°N
-98.85920°W
ARR / DAY
3
42.9%
DEP / DAY
4
75.0%

Great Bend Municipal Airport (KGBD/GBD) is a small general aviation airport located in Great Bend, KS, 94 mi north west of Wichita. It features 2 runways with the longest being 7,850 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

39m ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
20 kts
20°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KGBD 152256Z AUTO 02020G25KT 10SM CLR 23/16 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP158 T02280156 $

Runway intelligence

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

17
38% of ops
31 land · 2 TO
29
36% of ops
29 land · 5 TO
11
21% of ops
17 land · 40 TO
35
5% of ops
4 land · 11 TO
Runway 17 carries 38% of operations (31 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 36%.

Approach quality

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

17 31 landings
UA 10%
29 29 landings
UA 10%
11 17 landings
UA 6%
35 4 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (3 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
4.7
flights/day · 141 total
Busy hour (local)
12am
also 1pm · 11pm
Day vs night
55%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12am–11pm local, averaging 4.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (4.2 vs 5.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (30% of 105 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.275
OTHER 118.800
HUTCHINS 118.800
OTHER 122.500
GREAT BE 122.500
OTHER 322.425
HUTCHINS 322.425
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZKC
Mag var:
8° E
Fuel:
100LL

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
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