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KGEV ·

Ashe County Airport

36.43240°N

-81.41970°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 80.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 40.0%

Ashe County Airport (KGEV) is a small general aviation airport located in Jefferson, NC, 70 mi west of Winston-Salem. It features 1 runway measuring 5,002 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KGEV 150115Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM -RA SCT120 21/18 A3028 RMK AO2 T02140175

Runways

1 installed

5,002 FT MAX

10/28

5,002 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

75% of ops

21 land · 4 TO

25% of ops

7 land · 5 TO

Runway 10 carries 75% of operations (21 landings, 4 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

10 21 landings

UA 0%

28 7 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 10 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 21 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

1.3

flights/day · 40 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 7pm · 1pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.0 vs 1.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 15%

3 · 8%

2 · 5%

Activity is led by (15% of 39 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	120.675	—
OTHER	125.150	—
HICKORY	125.150	—
OTHER	263.000	—
HICKORY	263.000	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 7° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

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