KMIT Shafter-Minter Fld

UNKNOWN

Unknown — not enough evidence to call a runway

We don't know, and saying so beats guessing. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. No ADS-B traffic data available. Wind calm — no directional preference.

certainty: — evidence: NONE no tower now

Wind calm · VFR · 46 min old · from KBFL (8.0 nm away)

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30 26% 4501 ft · calm-wind rwy

12 16% 4501 ft · right traffic

26 15% 3680 ft · right traffic

8 15% 3680 ft

17 14% 2972 ft · right traffic

35 14% 2972 ft

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 30

PRIOR 30 is the designated calm-wind runway +0.50
PRIOR runway length 4501 ft +0.04

Runway 12

PRIOR runway length 4501 ft +0.04

Runway 17

PRIOR runway length 2972 ft -0.04

Runway 35

PRIOR runway length 2972 ft -0.04

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	46 min	Nearest station KBFL (8.0 nm away)
ADSB	UNAVAILABLE		No ADS-B track history here yet
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (No ADS-B track history here yet)

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KMIT field & runways

Shafter-Minter Fld, Shafter, California. Field elevation 425 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 13.0°E on record, 11.8°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.082°/year west — about 1° every 12 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
12	133.5°	121.7°	matches rule gives runway 13 in ~41 yr	4,501 ft	ASPH	right
17	180.0°	168.2°	matches	2,972 ft	CONC	right
26	270.1°	258.2°	matches	3,680 ft	ASPH	right
30	313.5°	301.7°	matches rule gives runway 31 in ~41 yr	4,501 ft	ASPH	left	calm-wind RY 30 PREFERRED CALM WIND RY.
35	0.0°	348.2°	matches	2,972 ft	CONC	left
8	90.1°	78.2°	matches	3,680 ft	ASPH

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