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Siler City Municipal Airport

35.70430°N
-79.50420°W
ARR / DAY
2
50.0%
DEP / DAY
3
28.6%

Siler City Municipal Airport (K5W8) is a small general aviation airport located in Siler City, NC, 30 mi south east of Greensboro. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KGSO, 36 mi away (K5W8 does not publish METAR)

36m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
4 kts
360°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KGSO 250754Z 36004KT 10SM FEW250 18/13 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP170 T01780128

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX
04/22
5,000 ft × 75
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

04
50% of ops
31 land · 30 TO
22
50% of ops
31 land · 24 TO
Runway 04 carries 50% of operations (31 landings, 30 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 50%.

Approach quality

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

04 31 landings
UA 13%
22 31 landings
UA 10%
Approaches to 04 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 31 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
4.4
flights/day · 133 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 1pm · 4pm
Day vs night
72%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 4.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (4.8 vs 4.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 127 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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