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📍 Potosi⬆ 959 ft1 runways

K8WC ·

Washington County Airport

37.92920°N

-90.73150°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Washington County Airport (K8WC) is a small general aviation airport located in Potosi, MO, 56 mi south west of St. Louis. It features 1 runway measuring 4,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KFAM, 20 mi away (K8WC does not publish METAR)

just now

Temp

88°F

Wind

6 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KFAM 312356Z AUTO 16006KT 10SM CLR 31/22 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP171 T03060222 10339 20306 55002 $

Runways

1 installed

4,000 FT MAX

02/20

4,000 ft × 60

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

75% of ops

53 land · 13 TO

25% of ops

18 land · 37 TO

Runway 20 carries 75% of operations (53 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 02 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

20 53 landings

UA 0%

02 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 20 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 53 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

3.6

flights/day · 109 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 5pm · 1pm

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 3.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (4.2 vs 3.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

40 · 46%

6 · 7%

4 · 5%

Activity is led by (46% of 87 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
SAINT LO	128.350	—
OTHER	128.350	—
SAINT LO	284.675	—
OTHER	284.675	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZKC
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

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