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Gwinner Roger Melroe Field

46.21870°N
-97.64320°W
ARR / DAY
1
▲ 0.0%
DEP / DAY
1
▲ 0.0%

Gwinner Roger Melroe Field (KGWR) is a small general aviation airport located in Gwinner, ND, 61 mi south west of Fargo. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 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

From KFAR, 62 mi away (KGWR does not publish METAR)

36m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
4 kts
130°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KFAR 280730Z AUTO 13004KT 10SM CLR 14/10 A3010 RMK T01400100 MADISHF

Runways

2 installed

5,000 FT MAX
06/24
2,991 ft × 100
GRS○ unlit
16/34
5,000 ft × 75
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

24
44% of ops
12 land · 2 TO
16
37% of ops
10 land · 1 TO
34
11% of ops
3 land · 3 TO
06
7% of ops
2 land · 2 TO
Runway 24 carries 44% of operations (12 landings, 2 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 37%.

Approach quality

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

24 12 landings
UA 0%
16 10 landings
UA 0%
34 3 landings
UA 0%
06 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 24 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 12 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
1.7
flights/day · 52 total
Busy hour (local)
3pm
also 6pm · 4pm
Day vs night
69%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 1.7 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (1.5 vs 1.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

12 · 23%
10 · 19%
10 · 19%
3 · 6%
3 · 6%
2 · 4%
Activity is led by (23% of 52 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700 —
UNICOM 122.700 —
AWOS 118.325 —
OTHER 127.350 —
FARGO RC 127.350 —
OTHER 278.300 —
FARGO RC 278.300 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZMP
Mag var:
4° E
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
Anonymous
04/02/2014
NDB OTS Perm
GWR 278 OTS permanent 17 Oct 13
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