Flight Report

This page captures seven days of ADS-B traffic at Salina Municipal Airport (KSLN) from December 29, 2024 through January 4, 2025, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the airport's conversion from military to civilian operations. Over that period, 89 total flight operations were recorded across 40 unique aircraft, all registered in the United States. The traffic split into 33 arrivals, 36 departures, and 20 touch-and-gos. Activity peaked at 16:00 CST with 12 operations in a single hour, and the average across all hours was 0.5 flights per hour. The first recorded flight departed at 06:28 CST and the last arrived at 09:05 CST. Denver International (KDEN) led all routes with 9 total operations (3 arrivals, 6 departures), followed by Chicago O'Hare (KORD) at 7 and Russell Municipal (KRSL) at 6. Shorter regional connections to McPherson (KMPR), Wichita (KICT), and Kansas City Downtown (KMKC) also appeared in the top ten. WNW was the most common approach and departure direction. The shortest recorded flight covered 22.7 nautical miles to McPherson in under 17 minutes, topping out at 2,550 feet. The longest was an arrival from Worcester Regional (KORH) spanning 1,205.3 nautical miles over 200 minutes. Altitude data across 35,149 ADS-B points shows a concentration of observations in the 2,000 to 4,000-foot range, consistent with traffic climbing away from or descending toward the field at 1,288 feet elevation. The average recorded altitude was 10,821 feet, while the maximum reached 43,300 feet on a departure to McClellan Airfield (KMCC) flown by tail number N30FP. Average groundspeed across all flights was 191 knots, with a recorded peak of 554 knots. Total distance flown across all legs came to 22,454.7 nautical miles.