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K24A ·

Jackson County Airport

35.31740°N

-83.20990°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 44.4%

DEP / DAY

▲ 80.0%

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 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

22h ago

Temp

71°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

K24A 122355Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM -RA BKN100 OVC120 22/21 A3018 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE S AND NW T02190207 10258 20218 402580189

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

53% of ops

47 land · 28 TO

47% of ops

41 land · 24 TO

Runway 15 carries 53% of operations (47 landings, 28 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

15 47 landings

UA 0%

33 41 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 15 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 47 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

2.0

flights/day · 61 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 6pm · 7pm

Day vs night

89%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–7pm local, averaging 2.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (2.2 vs 2.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 53 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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