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K1A5 ·

Macon County Airport

35.22260°N

-83.41900°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

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 5,002 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

84°F

Wind

5 kts

290°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K1A5 271655Z AUTO 29005KT 10SM CLR 29/22 A3004 RMK AO2 T02870218

Runways

1 installed

5,002 FT MAX

07/25

5,002 ft × 100

ASPH-G● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

68% of ops

75 land · 10 TO

32% of ops

35 land · 36 TO

Runway 25 carries 68% of operations (75 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

25 75 landings

UA 0%

07 35 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 25 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 75 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

2.3

flights/day · 70 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 3pm

Day vs night

81%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 2.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (2.5 vs 2.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 11%

5 · 9%

4 · 7%

Activity is led by (11% of 57 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+

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

greenbaron

08/17/2012

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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