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Porterville Municipal Airport

36.02960°N
-119.06300°W
ARR / DAY
2
▲ 220.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 200.0%

Porterville Municipal Airport (KPTV/PTV) is a small general aviation airport located in Porterville, CA, 24 mi south east of Visalia. It features 1 runway measuring 5,908 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

10d ago
Temp
57°F
Wind
4 kts
140°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KPTV 011156Z AUTO 14004KT 7SM -RA BKN008 OVC016 14/14 A2981 RMK AO2 CIG 004V010 SLP093 P0014 60036 70037 T01390139 10150 20133 56005 $

Runways

1 installed

5,908 FT MAX
12/30
5,908 ft × 150
ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

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

30
70% of ops
30 land · 1 TO
12
30% of ops
13 land · 15 TO
Runway 30 carries 70% of operations (30 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 30%.

Approach quality

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

30 30 landings
UA 0%
12 13 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 30 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
2.5
flights/day · 75 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 8pm · 6pm
Day vs night
47%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–6pm local, averaging 2.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (2.0 vs 2.8 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 56 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 119.075 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 134.625 —
OTHER 127.100 —
BAKERSFI 127.100 —
OTHER 317.700 —
BAKERSFI 317.700 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
15° E
Fuel:
100LL
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