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Smith Mountain Lake Airport satellite view

📍 Moneta⬆ 892 ft1 runways

KW91 ·

Smith Mountain Lake Airport

37.10770°N

-79.59250°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 22.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 20.0%

Smith Mountain Lake Airport (KW91) is a small general aviation airport located in Moneta, VA, 22 mi south east of Roanoke. It features 1 runway measuring 3,058 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 7 arrivals and 8 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

3,058 FT MAX

05/23

3,058 ft × 50

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

212 land · 377 TO

49% of ops

204 land · 25 TO

Runway 23 carries 51% of operations (212 landings, 377 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 05 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

23 212 landings

UA 3%

05 204 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 23 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 212 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

10.7

flights/day · 320 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 5pm · 7pm

Day vs night

62%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 10.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (11.2 vs 11.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (64% of 316 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.975	—
APCH	135.000	—
APCH	254.325	—
UNICOM	122.975	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Mag var:: 9° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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