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PAUO · WOW

Willow Airport

61.75420°N
-150.05200°W
ARR / DAY
12
24.3%
DEP / DAY
9
13.3%

Willow Airport (PAUO/WOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Willow, AK, 38 mi north of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 4,400 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 12 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From PAWS, 21 mi away (PAUO does not publish METAR)

12m ago
Temp
55°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
PAWS 040556Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC026 13/08 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP179 T01280078 10178 20117 51005 $

Runways

1 installed

4,400 FT MAX
13/31
4,400 ft × 75
GRAVEL-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

31
60% of ops
457 land · 252 TO
13
40% of ops
306 land · 270 TO
Runway 31 carries 60% of operations (457 landings, 252 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

31 457 landings
UA 18%
13 306 landings
UA 19%
Approaches to 31 show a 18% unstable-approach rate (80 UA events from 457 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
23.2
flights/day · 697 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 9pm · 8pm
Day vs night
27%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 8pm–10pm local, averaging 23.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (29.6 vs 21.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (22% of 634 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
BIG LAKE 133.700
OTHER 133.700
BIG LAKE 279.600
OTHER 279.600
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAN
Mag var:
21° E
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 06:08 UTC