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Elk Hills Buttonwillow Airport satellite view

📍 Buttonwillow⬆ 326 ft1 runways

KL62 ·

Elk Hills Buttonwillow Airport

35.35270°N

-119.47900°W

ARR / DAY

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DEP / DAY

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Elk Hills Buttonwillow Airport (KL62) is a small general aviation airport located in Buttonwillow, CA, 26 mi west of Bakersfield. It features 1 runway measuring 3,260 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

3,260 FT MAX

11/29

3,260 ft × 50

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

71% of ops

25 land · 0 TO

29% of ops

10 land · 0 TO

Runway 29 carries 71% of operations (25 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 11 at 29%.

Approach quality

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

29 25 landings

UA 0%

11 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 29 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 25 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

1.3

flights/day · 38 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 6pm · 3pm

Day vs night

79%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.0 vs 1.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (38% of 34 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Elevation:: 326 ft
Mag var:: 15° E

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