📊 KBVU Averaged 304 Movements per Month Across Five Full Months
KBVU established a relatively stable recent operating baseline from March through July 2026, averaging approximately 304 takeoffs and landings per month across the five full months, with May marking the high point within the period. Avi-Go data show that from February 28 through August 28, 2026, the airport recorded 1,877 movements within a specific trackable business aircraft sample, including 823 departures and 1,054 arrivals; at the airport level, each departure and each arrival is counted as one movement. By month, March through July recorded 246, 278, 392, 302, and 304 movements, respectively, with May exceeding March by 146 movements. February 28 recorded 9 movements for that day, while August 1 through August 28 recorded 346 movements. These two partial months should not be directly compared with the full months on an unadjusted month-over-month basis. These results are suitable as a recent traffic reference for the specific trackable sample, rather than as an extrapolated assessment of KBVU’s total airport-wide operating volume.
Impact: Monthly volume from March through July ranged from 246 to 392 movements. This means that hangar, aircraft management, maintenance, or FBO projects targeting KBVU can use the monthly average of 304 movements as the base case, with the period low of 246 movements and high of 392 movements serving as stress-test boundaries. The 823 departures and 1,054 arrivals represent a difference of 231 movements. Therefore, commercial projections involving parking-stand turnover, based-aircraft demand, or route structure should prioritize monthly totals and should not infer repositioning activity or customer flows from the net difference between departures and arrivals.
Recommendation: Build a three-tier model for KBVU using 246 movements as the low case, 304 movements as the base case, and 392 movements as the high case. Under each scenario, calculate hangar utilization, staffing requirements, maintenance-bay workload, and fixed-cost coverage, while incorporating lease, aircraft management, maintenance, and FBO service terms individually into the revenue assumptions. August data should be compared alongside the full months from March through July only after the reporting period closes on August 31, 2026. Particular attention should be paid to whether monthly business aircraft movements remain within the above range and to subsequent changes in recorded departures and arrivals.