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📍 Famoso⬆ 635 ft1 runways
KL73 ·

Poso Kern County Airport

35.59660°N
-119.12800°W
ARR / DAY
3
▲ 84.6%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 33.3%

Poso Kern County Airport (KL73) is a small general aviation airport located in Famoso, CA, 17 mi north of Bakersfield. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KBFL, 12 mi away (KL73 does not publish METAR)

34m ago
Temp
60°F
Wind
8 kts
40°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KBFL 120954Z AUTO 04008KT 10SM CLR 16/03 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP130 T01560033

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX
16/34
3,000 ft × 60
ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

34
89% of ops
67 land · 2 TO
16
11% of ops
8 land · 3 TO
Runway 34 carries 89% of operations (67 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 11%.

Approach quality

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

34 67 landings
UA 12%
16 8 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 34 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 67 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
4.6
flights/day · 137 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 6pm · 8pm
Day vs night
47%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 4.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.5 vs 4.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 128 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Elevation:
635 ft
Mag var:
15° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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