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KUUU · NPT

Newport State Airport

41.53240°N

-71.28150°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 7.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 17.6%

Newport State Airport (KUUU/NPT) is a small general aviation airport located in Newport, RI, 20 mi west of New Bedford. It features 2 runways with the longest being 2,999 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 14 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KOQU, 8 mi away (KUUU does not publish METAR)

56m ago

Temp

79°F

Wind

7 kts

230°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KOQU 031950Z 23007KT 10SM SCT022 BKN032 26/22 A2987

Runways

2 installed

2,999 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

58% of ops

463 land · 540 TO

24% of ops

192 land · 145 TO

11% of ops

87 land · 46 TO

8% of ops

63 land · 32 TO

Runway 22 carries 58% of operations (463 landings, 540 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

22 463 landings

UA 4%

04 192 landings

UA 5%

34 87 landings

UA 2%

16 63 landings

UA 22%

Approaches to 22 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 463 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

29.6

flights/day · 888 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 7pm · 2pm

Day vs night

74%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–6pm local, averaging 29.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (29.6 vs 31.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 706 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	128.700	—
APCH	269.525	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
ASOS	132.075	—
WIPOR ST	123.675	—
OTHER	123.675	—
WOODSTOC	124.850	—
OTHER	124.850	—
CD/P	127.250	—
OTHER	127.250	—
WIPOR ST	244.875	—
OTHER	244.875	—
WOODSTOC	307.900	—
OTHER	307.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZBW
Mag var:: 15° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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