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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

▼ 35.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 40.9%

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 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

40m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

6 kts

260°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGSO 041330Z AUTO 26006KT 10SM CLR 28/23 A3005 RMK T02800230 MADISHF

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

64 land · 59 TO

47% of ops

57 land · 49 TO

Runway 04 carries 53% of operations (64 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 64 landings

UA 14%

22 57 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 04 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (9 UA events from 64 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

5.5

flights/day · 166 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

73%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 5.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (4.2 vs 6.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 136 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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