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KH96 ·

Benton Municipal Airport

38.00670°N

-88.93440°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 63.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 350.0%

Benton Municipal Airport (KH96) is a small general aviation airport located in Benton, IL, 75 mi west of Evansville. It features 1 runway measuring 4,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KCGI, 64 mi away (KH96 does not publish METAR)

24m ago

Temp

83°F

Wind

5 kts

180°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KCGI 150253Z AUTO 18005KT 10SM CLR 28/24 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP169 T02830239 53016

Runways

1 installed

4,000 FT MAX

18/36

4,000 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

65% of ops

51 land · 13 TO

35% of ops

27 land · 12 TO

Runway 18 carries 65% of operations (51 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

18 51 landings

UA 0%

36 27 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 18 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 51 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

2.1

flights/day · 63 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 6pm · 12pm

Day vs night

71%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12pm–5pm local, averaging 2.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (1.4 vs 2.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 58 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
OTHER	127.475	—
MARION R	127.475	—
OTHER	346.275	—
MARION R	346.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Mag var:: 2° W
Fuel:: 100LL

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