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06WN ·

Western Airpark

46.92500°N

-122.55300°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 5.0%

Western Airpark (06WN) is a small general aviation airport located in Yelm, WA, 23 mi south of Tacoma. It features 1 runway measuring 2,845 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 3 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KGRF, 11 mi away (06WN does not publish METAR)

44m ago

Temp

84°F

Wind

7 kts

320°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KGRF 160055Z AUTO 32007KT 10SM FEW200 29/09 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP134 T02900086 $

Runways

1 installed

2,845 FT MAX

09/27

2,845 ft × 30

ASPH-G● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

60% of ops

134 land · 30 TO

40% of ops

91 land · 57 TO

Runway 09 carries 60% of operations (134 landings, 30 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 27 at 40%.

Approach quality

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

09 134 landings

UA 7%

27 91 landings

UA 4%

Approaches to 09 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (9 UA events from 134 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

5.2

flights/day · 155 total

Busy hour (local)

9pm

also 7pm · 10pm

Day vs night

43%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 9pm–10pm local, averaging 5.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (3.5 vs 6.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 141 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZSE
Elevation:: 394 ft
Mag var:: 20° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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