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K5R1 ·

Roy Wilcox Airport

31.45180°N

-88.19450°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Roy Wilcox Airport (K5R1) is a small general aviation airport located in Chatom, AL, 53 mi north of Mobile. It features 1 runway measuring 4,002 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KMOB, 53 mi away (K5R1 does not publish METAR)

58m ago

Temp

92°F

Wind

5 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KMOB 261656Z VRB05KT 10SM SCT042 SCT150 33/23 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP176 T03330233

Runways

1 installed

4,002 FT MAX

12/30

4,002 ft × 80

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

59% of ops

13 land · 1 TO

41% of ops

9 land · 0 TO

Runway 30 carries 59% of operations (13 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 12 at 41%.

Approach quality

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

30 13 landings

UA 0%

12 9 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 30 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 13 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

0.4

flights/day · 12 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

75%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–5pm local, averaging 0.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (0.4 vs 0.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

2 · 17%

1 · 8%

Activity is led by (17% of 12 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
MOBILE R	127.650	—
OTHER	127.650	—
MOBILE R	285.475	—
OTHER	285.475	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Elevation:: 166 ft
Mag var:: 1° W

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