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K5W5 ·

Triple W Airport

35.62030°N

-78.70030°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 14.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.1%

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 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

59m ago

Temp

79°F

Wind

4 kts

110°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRDU 292051Z 11004KT 10SM FEW095 BKN120 BKN250 26/21 A3016 RMK AO2 SLP210 T02610211 56013 $

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

56% of ops

74 land · 48 TO

44% of ops

59 land · 93 TO

Runway 16 carries 56% of operations (74 landings, 48 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

16 74 landings

UA 5%

34 59 landings

UA 14%

Approaches to 16 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 74 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

7.4

flights/day · 223 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 7.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (7.8 vs 7.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 211 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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