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Gwinner Roger Melroe Field

46.21870°N
-97.64320°W
ARR / DAY
1
22.2%
DEP / DAY
2
120.0%

Gwinner Roger Melroe Field (KGWR) is a small general aviation airport located in Gwinner, ND, 61 mi south west of Fargo. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

14h ago
Temp
59°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KGWR 170335Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 15/15 A3009 RMK A01

Runway intelligence

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

16
50% of ops
10 land · 1 TO
24
40% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
06
5% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
34
5% of ops
1 land · 2 TO
Runway 16 carries 50% of operations (10 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 24 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

16 10 landings
UA 0%
24 8 landings
UA 0%
06 1 landings
UA 0%
34 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 16 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 10 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
1.3
flights/day · 39 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 6pm · 2pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (1.4 vs 1.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 39 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700
UNICOM 122.700
AWOS 118.325
OTHER 127.350
FARGO RC 127.350
OTHER 278.300
FARGO RC 278.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
4° E
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Anonymous
4/2/2014
NDB OTS Perm
GWR 278 OTS permanent 17 Oct 13
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 17:38 UTC