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KW78 ·

William M Tuck Airport

36.71000°N
-78.84800°W
ARR / DAY
5
18.5%
DEP / DAY
5
0.0%

William M Tuck Airport (KW78) is a small general aviation airport located in South Boston, VA, 49 mi north of Durham. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,011 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

53m ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KW78 051135Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/20 A2988 RMK AO1 T02100202

Runway intelligence

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

19
34% of ops
56 land · 19 TO
01
33% of ops
54 land · 58 TO
05
26% of ops
43 land · 6 TO
23
8% of ops
13 land · 22 TO
Runway 19 carries 34% of operations (56 landings, 19 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

19 56 landings
UA 5%
01 54 landings
UA 7%
05 43 landings
UA 19%
23 13 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 19 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 56 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
6.2
flights/day · 187 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 12pm
Day vs night
64%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–4pm local, averaging 6.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (4.4 vs 7.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 161 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 119.425
SOUTH BO 124.050
OTHER 124.050
SOUTH BO 352.000
OTHER 352.000
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDC
Mag var:
8° W
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
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 12:28 UTC