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K5W5 ·

Triple W Airport

35.62030°N

-78.70030°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 13.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 13.8%

Triple W Airport (K5W5) is a small general aviation airport located in Raleigh, NC. It features 1 runway measuring 3,004 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

From KRDU, 18 mi away (K5W5 does not publish METAR)

44m ago

Temp

84°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRDU 030151Z VRB04KT 10SM SCT250 29/20 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP168 T02890200

Runways

1 installed

3,004 FT MAX

16/34

3,004 ft × 40

ASP● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

126 land · 176 TO

49% of ops

121 land · 82 TO

Runway 34 carries 51% of operations (126 landings, 176 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

34 126 landings

UA 16%

16 121 landings

UA 9%

Approaches to 34 show a 16% unstable-approach rate (20 UA events from 126 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

8.1

flights/day · 244 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 8.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (7.8 vs 8.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (33% of 230 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
UNICOM	122.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 243 ft
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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