Dare County Regional Airport satellite view

📍 Manteo⬆ 13 ft2 runways

KMQI · MEO

Dare County Regional Airport

35.91900°N

-75.69550°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 34.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 35.2%

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 9 arrivals and 12 departures per day on average over the last 7 days. Cargo carriers (FedEx, UPS, and similar) operate regularly, accounting for about 8% of observed flights.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

1d ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

4 kts

330°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMQI 291735Z AUTO 33004KT 10SM SCT023 28/22 A2971 RMK AO2 T02750216

Runways

2 installed

4,306 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

43% of ops

355 land · 12 TO

39% of ops

325 land · 5 TO

14% of ops

113 land · 148 TO

5% of ops

42 land · 189 TO

Runway 23 carries 43% of operations (355 landings, 12 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

23 355 landings

UA 3%

17 325 landings

UA 16%

35 113 landings

UA 4%

05 42 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 23 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 355 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

29.4

flights/day · 882 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 1pm

Day vs night

78%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 29.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (25.6 vs 32.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (30% of 668 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

7/26/2017

beautiful location

absolutly must go in summer, its so beautiful :)

Komatoast

1/24/2009

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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