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Walnut Ridge Regional Airport

36.12467°N
-90.92511°W
ARR / DAY
3
▲ 50.0%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 25.0%

Walnut Ridge Regional Airport (KARG/ARG) is a small general aviation airport located in Walnut Ridge, AR, 83 mi north west of Memphis. It features 3 runways with the longest being 6,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

18h ago
Temp
88°F
Wind
7 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KARG 192356Z AUTO 17007KT 10SM CLR 31/25 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP105 T03110250 10328 20294 58019 $

Runways

3 installed

6,001 FT MAX
04/22
6,001 ft × 150
CON● LITMED
13/31
5,003 ft × 150
CON○ unlit
18/36
5,001 ft × 150
CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

31
32% of ops
25 land · 0 TO
04
24% of ops
19 land · 4 TO
36
22% of ops
17 land · 5 TO
22
22% of ops
17 land · 12 TO
13
1% of ops
1 land · 6 TO
18
0% of ops
0 land · 2 TO
Runway 31 carries 32% of operations (25 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 24%.

Approach quality

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

31 25 landings
UA 0%
04 19 landings
UA 0%
36 17 landings
UA 0%
22 17 landings
UA 0%
13 1 landings
UA 0%
18 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 31 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 25 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
4.5
flights/day · 136 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 1pm
Day vs night
68%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 4.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (3.0 vs 5.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

17 · 15%
12 · 11%
9 · 8%
9 · 8%
8 · 7%
7 · 6%
Activity is led by (15% of 111 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 126.525 —
OTHER 120.075 —
WALNUT R 120.075 —
OTHER 122.500 —
WALNUT R 122.500 —
OTHER 289.400 —
WALNUT R 289.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZME
Elevation:
279 ft
Mag var:
1° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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Nitrohog
11/4/2012
Flight training
Night XC with Matt Carner
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