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KFQD ·

Rutherford County Marchman Field

35.42820°N

-81.93510°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 31.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 15.0%

Rutherford County Marchman Field (KFQD) is a small general aviation airport located in Rutherfordton, NC, 63 mi west of Charlotte. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 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

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

16m ago

Temp

72°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KFQD 132035Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM VCTS SCT120 22/22 A3005 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT SE P0001

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX

01/19

5,000 ft × 100

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

50% of ops

98 land · 52 TO

50% of ops

97 land · 20 TO

Runway 19 carries 50% of operations (98 landings, 52 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 01 at 50%.

Approach quality

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

19 98 landings

UA 0%

01 97 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 19 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 98 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

5.4

flights/day · 162 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

83%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 5.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (2.8 vs 6.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (28% of 135 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.400	—
APCH	350.200	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	118.275	—
OTHER	132.625	—
SUGARLOA	132.625	—
OTHER	353.625	—
SUGARLOA	353.625	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 5° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

5 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

greenbaron

12/8/2013

Fun fly in

When reading comments from Anonymous posters, one should probably consider the source. Except, you can't. Because it's anonymous, likely for good reason. 57Alpha Cafe is alive and well, open for business, and this airport is a great day trip destination. We had a wonderful experience there last weekend, beautiful area… support GA!

Anonymous

2/17/2010

re: Leading Edge Aviation

Reply to @SPAflyer: Not anymore, he ran the FBO in the ground with his "business skills", and the county decided to let him run it when they took over. Ain't inbreeding grand?

Komatoast

1/24/2009

57A Cafe

Decent eats right on the airport... pick a nice afternoon to fly in and enjoy the scenery and chocolate cake for dessert... Cheap fuel.

SPAflyer

11/30/2007

Leading Edge Aviation

Greg Turner runs a first class operation at this airport.