Airports / K7A8 / Avery County Morrison FieldGood ground coverage
⚡ Upgrade for 1yr history
Avery County Morrison Field satellite view
📍 Spruce Pine⬆ 2,750 ft1 runways
K7A8 ·

Avery County Morrison Field

35.94460°N
-81.99570°W
ARR / DAY
0
100.0%
DEP / DAY
1
0.0%

Avery County Morrison Field (K7A8) is a small general aviation airport located in Spruce Pine, NC, 82 mi north west of Charlotte. It features 1 runway measuring 3,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 0 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KFQD, 36 mi away (K7A8 does not publish METAR)

45m ago
Temp
68°F
Wind
6 kts
60°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KFQD 070955Z AUTO 06006KT 10SM DZ OVC015 20/20 A3007 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

3,001 FT MAX
17D/35A
3,001 ft × 60
ASPH-G○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

35A
49% of ops
22 land · 1 TO
35
44% of ops
20 land · 1 TO
17
4% of ops
2 land · 9 TO
17D
2% of ops
1 land · 7 TO
Runway 35A carries 49% of operations (22 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

35A 22 landings
UA 5%
35 20 landings
UA 0%
17 2 landings
UA 0%
17D 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 35A show a 5% unstable-approach rate (1 UA events from 22 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
1.7
flights/day · 51 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 2pm
Day vs night
78%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (2.2 vs 1.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (11% of 44 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000
UNICOM 123.000
HICKORY 125.150
OTHER 125.150
HICKORY 263.000
OTHER 263.000
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
6° W
Fuel:
100LL, A1+
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 10:40 UTC