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K5W5 ·

Triple W Airport

35.62030°N

-78.70030°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 14.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.1%

Triple W Airport (K5W5) is a small general aviation airport located in Raleigh, NC. It features 1 runway measuring 3,004 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KRDU, 18 mi away (K5W5 does not publish METAR)

59m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

4 kts

320°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRDU 290550Z AUTO 32004KT 10SM SCT050 24/22 A3009 RMK T02400220 MADISHF

Runways

1 installed

3,004 FT MAX

16/34

3,004 ft × 40

ASP● LITNSTD

Runway intelligence

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

54% of ops

74 land · 49 TO

46% of ops

64 land · 97 TO

Runway 16 carries 54% of operations (74 landings, 49 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

16 74 landings

UA 5%

34 64 landings

UA 16%

Approaches to 16 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (4 UA events from 74 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

7.7

flights/day · 232 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 7.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (7.8 vs 8.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 219 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
UNICOM	122.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 243 ft
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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