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KZEF ·

Elkin Municipal Airport

36.28000°N

-80.78610°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 8.3%

DEP / DAY

▼ 18.9%

Elkin Municipal Airport (KZEF) is a small general aviation airport located in Elkin, NC, 33 mi north west of Winston-Salem. It features 1 runway measuring 4,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

4,001 FT MAX

07/25

4,001 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

53% of ops

89 land · 23 TO

47% of ops

79 land · 39 TO

Runway 07 carries 53% of operations (89 landings, 23 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

07 89 landings

UA 2%

25 79 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 07 show a 2% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 89 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

7.6

flights/day · 228 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

71%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 7.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (7.8 vs 7.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 176 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
HICKORY	125.150	—
OTHER	125.150	—
HICKORY	263.000	—
OTHER	263.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 8° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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