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Walnut Ridge Regional Airport

36.12467°N
-90.92511°W
ARR / DAY
2
▼ 15.8%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 30.8%

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 2 arrivals and 1 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

7m ago
Temp
99°F
Wind
8 kts
170°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KARG 022056Z AUTO 17008KT 10SM CLR 37/21 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP147 T03670211 57020 $

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
29% of ops
27 land · 0 TO
22
27% of ops
25 land · 14 TO
04
22% of ops
20 land · 10 TO
36
21% of ops
19 land · 4 TO
13
1% of ops
1 land · 10 TO
18
0% of ops
0 land · 1 TO
Runway 31 carries 29% of operations (27 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 27%.

Approach quality

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

31 27 landings
UA 0%
22 25 landings
UA 0%
04 20 landings
UA 0%
36 19 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 27 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
4.2
flights/day · 126 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 1pm · 2pm
Day vs night
75%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 4.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (4.2 vs 4.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

17 · 16%
10 · 9%
10 · 9%
8 · 7%
7 · 6%
7 · 6%
Activity is led by (16% of 109 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
11/04/2012
Flight training
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