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KMKJ ·

Mountain Empire Airport

36.89490°N

-81.34990°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 28.6%

DEP / DAY

▼ 14.3%

Mountain Empire Airport (KMKJ) is a small general aviation airport located in Marion/Wytheville, VA, 82 mi west of Roanoke. It features 1 runway measuring 5,252 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

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20m ago

Temp

41°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMKJ 200155Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 05/00 A3037 RMK AO2 T00491005

Runways

1 installed

5,252 FT MAX

08/26

5,252 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

67% of ops

31 land · 9 TO

33% of ops

15 land · 8 TO

Runway 26 carries 67% of operations (31 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

26 31 landings

UA 0%

08 15 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 26 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 31 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

2.5

flights/day · 76 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 4pm · 9pm

Day vs night

70%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–9pm local, averaging 2.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (1.8 vs 3.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 67 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
AWOS	123.875	—
TRI CITY	127.850	—
OTHER	127.850	—
TRI CITY	269.300	—
OTHER	269.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Mag var:: 6° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

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