Dare County Regional Airport satellite view

📍 Manteo⬆ 13 ft2 runways

KMQI · MEO

Dare County Regional Airport

35.91900°N

-75.69550°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 92.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 92.4%

Dare County Regional Airport (KMQI/MEO) is a small general aviation airport located in Manteo, NC, 66 mi south of Virginia Beach. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,306 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 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

1h ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

5 kts

20°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMQI 260135Z AUTO 02005KT 10SM OVC033 21/19 A3000 RMK AO2 P0001 T02050185

Runways

2 installed

4,306 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

42% of ops

536 land · 23 TO

39% of ops

494 land · 8 TO

14% of ops

177 land · 248 TO

5% of ops

66 land · 258 TO

Runway 23 carries 42% of operations (536 landings, 23 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 17 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

23 536 landings

UA 4%

17 494 landings

UA 12%

35 177 landings

UA 3%

05 66 landings

UA 6%

Approaches to 23 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (21 UA events from 536 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

27.6

flights/day · 829 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 1pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 27.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (27.6 vs 29.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (29% of 620 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.725	—
APCH	350.350	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	128.275	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Mag var:: 9° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

sunji

07/26/2017

beautiful location

absolutly must go in summer, its so beautiful :)

Komatoast

01/24/2009

Accommodating airport for Outer Bank Visitors

Great rustic terminal... great ramp service. Crew car available to run onto town for a meal... Call ahead, busy during the summer months. Overnight free with fuel purchase.

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