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Walnut Ridge Regional Airport

36.12467°N
-90.92511°W
ARR / DAY
3
▲ 26.7%
DEP / DAY
2
▲ 21.4%

Walnut Ridge Regional Airport (KARG/ARG) is a small general aviation airport located in Walnut Ridge, AR, 83 mi north west of Memphis. It features 3 runways with the longest being 6,001 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12m ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
6 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KARG 281656Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM CLR 26/09 A3006 RMK AO2 SLP180 T02560089 $

Runways

3 installed

6,001 FT MAX
04/22
6,001 ft × 150
CON● LITMED
13/31
5,003 ft × 150
CON○ unlit
18/36
5,001 ft × 150
CON● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

31
37% of ops
30 land · 0 TO
04
32% of ops
26 land · 13 TO
22
17% of ops
14 land · 15 TO
36
10% of ops
8 land · 2 TO
18
2% of ops
2 land · 2 TO
13
1% of ops
1 land · 8 TO
Runway 31 carries 37% of operations (30 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

31 30 landings
UA 0%
04 26 landings
UA 0%
22 14 landings
UA 0%
36 8 landings
UA 0%
18 2 landings
UA 0%
13 1 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 31 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 30 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
4.5
flights/day · 136 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 6pm · 1pm
Day vs night
73%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 4.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (6.0 vs 4.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

13 · 12%
12 · 11%
10 · 9%
9 · 8%
8 · 7%
7 · 7%
Activity is led by (12% of 107 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 126.525 —
OTHER 120.075 —
WALNUT R 120.075 —
OTHER 122.500 —
WALNUT R 122.500 —
OTHER 289.400 —
WALNUT R 289.400 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZME
Elevation:
279 ft
Mag var:
1° E
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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Nitrohog
11/4/2012
Flight training
Night XC with Matt Carner
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