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VG40 ·

Woody Field Airport

36.88360°N

-79.85230°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 33.3%

Woody Field Airport (VG40) is a small general aviation airport located in Rocky Mount, VA, 27 mi south of Roanoke. It features 1 runway measuring 2,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KROA, 31 mi away (VG40 does not publish METAR)

32m ago

Temp

76°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KROA 030654Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 24/22 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP176 T02440217 $

Runways

1 installed

2,000 FT MAX

16/34

2,000 ft × 75

GRS○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

90% of ops

18 land · 4 TO

10% of ops

2 land · 0 TO

Runway 16 carries 90% of operations (18 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 10%.

Approach quality

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

16 18 landings

UA 0%

34 2 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 16 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 18 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

0.5

flights/day · 16 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 12am · 3pm

Day vs night

75%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 0.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (0.4 vs 0.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

5 · 31%

2 · 12%

1 · 6%

Activity is led by (31% of 16 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 1,157 ft
Mag var:: 8° W

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