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Bentonville Municipal-Louise M Thaden Field

36.34570°N
-94.21930°W
ARR / DAY
34
▼ 1.7%
DEP / DAY
41
▲ 15.7%

Bentonville Municipal-Louise M Thaden Field (KVBT) is a small general aviation airport located in Bentonville, AR, 79 mi south west of Springfield. It features 1 runway measuring 5,053 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 34 arrivals and 41 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

14h ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
9 kts
120°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KVBT 260256Z AUTO 12009KT 10SM CLR 23/16 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP193 T02330156 55000

Runways

1 installed

5,053 FT MAX
18/36
5,053 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

18
67% of ops
757 land · 960 TO
36
33% of ops
367 land · 257 TO
Runway 18 carries 67% of operations (757 landings, 960 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 36 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

18 757 landings
UA 10%
36 367 landings
UA 13%
Approaches to 18 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (78 UA events from 757 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
54.5
flights/day · 1,636 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 7pm · 2pm
Day vs night
63%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 54.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (48.0 vs 59.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (35% of 1,122 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.975 —
APCH 121.000 —
APCH 244.575 —
UNICOM 122.975 —
AWOS 134.975 —
CD/P 121.050 —
OTHER 121.050 —
FAYETTEV 126.100 —
OTHER 126.100 —
CD/P 263.125 —
OTHER 263.125 —
FAYETTEV 269.000 —
OTHER 269.000 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZME
Mag var:
1° 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 17:20 UTC