Marana Regional Airport satellite view
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KAVQ · AVW

Marana Regional Airport

32.40960°N
-111.21800°W
ARR / DAY
38
▼ 13.0%
DEP / DAY
40
▼ 15.5%

Marana Regional Airport (KAVQ/AVW) is a small general aviation airport located in Tucson, AZ, 21 mi north west of Tucson. It features 2 runways with the longest being 6,901 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 38 arrivals and 40 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

23h ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
5 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KAVQ 260715Z AUTO 18005KT 10SM CLR 23/16 A2995 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

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

12
69% of ops
1,104 land · 1,000 TO
30
16% of ops
260 land · 202 TO
21
13% of ops
204 land · 30 TO
03
2% of ops
30 land · 22 TO
Runway 12 carries 69% of operations (1,104 landings, 1,000 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 16%.

Approach quality

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

12 1,104 landings
UA 4%
30 260 landings
UA 5%
21 204 landings
UA 26%GA 0.5%
03 30 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 12 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (48 UA events from 1,104 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
58.4
flights/day · 1,751 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 4pm · 2pm
Day vs night
79%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 58.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (64.8 vs 58.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (35% of 1,419 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.000 —
APCH 119.400 —
APCH 318.100 —
UNICOM 123.000 —
AWOS 118.375 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAB
Mag var:
12° E
Fuel:
100LL, A++

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

peak 8 AM · 1 movement every 300 s
12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
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