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K1A5 ·

Macon County Airport

35.22260°N

-83.41900°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 15.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 42.9%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 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

5h ago

Temp

86°F

Wind

3 kts

300°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K1A5 281715Z AUTO 30003KT 10SM SCT037 SCT050 30/22 A2992 RMK AO2 T02980223

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

65% of ops

42 land · 10 TO

35% of ops

23 land · 19 TO

Runway 25 carries 65% of operations (42 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 07 at 35%.

Approach quality

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

25 42 landings

UA 0%

07 23 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 25 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 42 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

3.2

flights/day · 97 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

82%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–5pm local, averaging 3.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (3.6 vs 3.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

8 · 11%

7 · 9%

5 · 7%

Activity is led by (11% of 76 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

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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