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K1A5 ·

Macon County Airport

35.22260°N

-83.41900°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 28.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 10.0%

Macon County Airport (K1A5) is a small general aviation airport located in Franklin, NC, 58 mi south east of Knoxville. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

13h ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K1A5 070715Z AUTO 00000KT 7SM OVC031 20/20 A3007 RMK AO2 T02000197

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX

07/25

5,000 ft × 100

ASPH-G● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

51% of ops

49 land · 38 TO

49% of ops

48 land · 7 TO

Runway 07 carries 51% of operations (49 landings, 38 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 25 at 49%.

Approach quality

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

07 49 landings

UA 0%

25 48 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 07 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 49 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

3.5

flights/day · 105 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 5pm · 4pm

Day vs night

80%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 3.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (3.5 vs 3.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 87 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
AWOS	118.225	—
MOUNT OG	134.800	—
OTHER	134.800	—
MOUNT OG	379.950	—
OTHER	379.950	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

greenbaron

8/17/2012

Picturesque

A picturesque airport, to say the least! Didn't drop to pattern altitude until final. No problems taking off 25 on an August day in my cherokee 180, but I see your point...

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