Dare County Regional Airport satellite view

📍 Manteo⬆ 13 ft2 runways

KMQI · MEO

Dare County Regional Airport

35.91900°N

-75.69550°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 33.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 32.5%

Dare County Regional Airport (KMQI/MEO) is a small general aviation airport located in Manteo, NC, 66 mi south of Virginia Beach. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,306 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 13 arrivals and 19 departures per day on average over the last 7 days. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 4% of observed flights.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

5 kts

280°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMQI 240615Z AUTO 28005KT 10SM CLR 25/22 A2996 RMK AO2 T02510215

Runways

2 installed

4,306 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

46% of ops

214 land · 4 TO

39% of ops

181 land · 2 TO

10% of ops

47 land · 76 TO

5% of ops

21 land · 99 TO

Runway 17 carries 46% of operations (214 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

17 214 landings

UA 11%

23 181 landings

UA 4%

35 47 landings

UA 0%

05 21 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 17 show a 11% unstable-approach rate (24 UA events from 214 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

30.8

flights/day · 925 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 30.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (30.6 vs 32.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 686 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.725	—
APCH	350.350	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	128.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Mag var:: 9° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

sunji

07/26/2017

beautiful location

absolutly must go in summer, its so beautiful :)

Komatoast

01/24/2009

Accommodating airport for Outer Bank Visitors

Great rustic terminal... great ramp service. Crew car available to run onto town for a meal... Call ahead, busy during the summer months. Overnight free with fuel purchase.

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