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KMIT · MIT

Shafter Airport - Minter Field

35.50740°N
-119.19200°W
ARR / DAY
6
▼ 16.7%
DEP / DAY
10
▲ 21.1%

Shafter Airport - Minter Field (KMIT/MIT) is a small general aviation airport located in Shafter, CA. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,501 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 6 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KBFL, 9 mi away (KMIT does not publish METAR)

22m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
3 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KBFL 171154Z AUTO VRB03KT 10SM CLR 18/01 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP171 T01780006 10283 20172 56000

Runway intelligence

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

12
34% of ops
64 land · 12 TO
30
30% of ops
57 land · 51 TO
35
22% of ops
42 land · 6 TO
17
13% of ops
24 land · 12 TO
Runway 12 carries 34% of operations (64 landings, 12 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

12 64 landings
UA 9%
30 57 landings
UA 12%
35 42 landings
UA 7%
17 24 landings
UA 4%
Approaches to 12 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 64 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
13.0
flights/day · 389 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 3pm · 5pm
Day vs night
62%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 13.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (13.8 vs 13.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (45% of 334 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900 —
APCH 126.450 —
APCH 270.300 —
AWOS 121.125 —
BAKERSFI 127.100 —
OTHER 127.100 —
BAKERSFI 317.700 —
OTHER 317.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
13° 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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 12:16 UTC