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KMIT · MIT

Shafter Airport - Minter Field

35.50740°N
-119.19200°W
ARR / DAY
6
24.1%
DEP / DAY
20
17.8%

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 6 arrivals and 20 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

Temp
Wind
Visib
Ceil

Runway intelligence

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

12
46% of ops
83 land · 34 TO
35
25% of ops
45 land · 1 TO
30
21% of ops
38 land · 15 TO
17
7% of ops
13 land · 14 TO
Runway 12 carries 46% of operations (83 landings, 34 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

12 83 landings
UA 2%
35 45 landings
UA 7%
30 38 landings
UA 0%
17 13 landings
UA 8%
Approaches to 12 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 83 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
20.9
flights/day · 626 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 9pm · 4pm
Day vs night
61%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 20.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (23.0 vs 21.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (78% of 583 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 15:29 UTC