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K24A ·

Jackson County Airport

35.31740°N

-83.20990°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 200.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 160.0%

Jackson County Airport (K24A) is a small general aviation airport located in Sylva, NC, 60 mi south east of Knoxville. It features 1 runway measuring 3,210 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

26m ago

Temp

63°F

Wind

7 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR K24A 280755Z AUTO 14007KT 10SM CLR 17/17 A3012 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE AND S T01730166

Runways

1 installed

3,210 FT MAX

15/33

3,210 ft × 60

ASPH-G● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

68% of ops

19 land · 10 TO

32% of ops

9 land · 2 TO

Runway 15 carries 68% of operations (19 landings, 10 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

15 19 landings

UA 0%

33 9 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 15 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 19 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

2.1

flights/day · 64 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 3pm · 7pm

Day vs night

75%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 2.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (1.5 vs 2.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (25% of 57 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.900	—
MOUNT OG	134.800	—
OTHER	134.800	—
MOUNT OG	379.950	—
OTHER	379.950	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Elevation:: 2,857 ft
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL

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