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K5W5 ·

Triple W Airport

35.62030°N

-78.70030°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 150.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 33.3%

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 5 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

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Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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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

67% of ops

144 land · 91 TO

33% of ops

72 land · 85 TO

Runway 16 carries 67% of operations (144 landings, 91 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

16 144 landings

UA 12%

34 72 landings

UA 35%

Approaches to 16 show a 12% unstable-approach rate (18 UA events from 144 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

6.1

flights/day · 183 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 5pm · 6pm

Day vs night

79%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–6pm local, averaging 6.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (6.8 vs 6.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 177 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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