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Siler City Municipal Airport satellite view

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K5W8 ·

Siler City Municipal Airport

35.70430°N

-79.50420°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 25.0%

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 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

59m ago

Temp

95°F

Wind

9 kts

170°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGSO 031754Z 17009KT 10SM BKN060TCU 35/21 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP163 TCU SE AND S TCU DSNT NE AND E T03500211 10356 20256 58012

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

53% of ops

62 land · 59 TO

47% of ops

56 land · 48 TO

Runway 04 carries 53% of operations (62 landings, 59 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

04 62 landings

UA 15%

22 56 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 04 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (9 UA events from 62 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

5.4

flights/day · 161 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

73%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 5.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (4.2 vs 6.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 134 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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