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K5W5 ·

Triple W Airport

35.62030°N

-78.70030°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 200.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 900.0%

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 12 arrivals and 10 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

43m ago

Temp

69°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KRDU 161251Z 00000KT 10SM FEW045 BKN250 21/17 A3040 RMK AO2 SLP289 T02060167

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

53% of ops

92 land · 105 TO

47% of ops

83 land · 62 TO

Runway 34 carries 53% of operations (92 landings, 105 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

34 92 landings

UA 23%

16 83 landings

UA 7%

Approaches to 34 show a 23% unstable-approach rate (21 UA events from 92 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

7.3

flights/day · 219 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 7.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (4.9 vs 8.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (34% of 208 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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