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KMIT · MIT

Shafter Airport - Minter Field

35.50740°N
-119.19200°W
ARR / DAY
2
74.4%
DEP / DAY
4
64.8%

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 2 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

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

42m ago
Temp
94°F
Wind
4 kts
320°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KBFL 250254Z 32004KT 10SM CLR 34/14 A2982 RMK AO2 SLP091 T03440144 53002 $

Runway intelligence

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

12
35% of ops
190 land · 83 TO
30
33% of ops
181 land · 19 TO
35
26% of ops
141 land · 1 TO
17
6% of ops
30 land · 22 TO
Runway 12 carries 35% of operations (190 landings, 83 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

12 190 landings
UA 0%
30 181 landings
UA 2%
35 141 landings
UA 6%
17 30 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 12 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 190 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
17.1
flights/day · 514 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 6pm · 4pm
Day vs night
68%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 17.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (17.4 vs 17.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (75% of 468 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

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 03:36 UTC