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Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field

36.69510°N

-76.13550°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Fentress Naval Auxiliary Landing Field (KNFE) is a small general aviation airport located in Fentress, VA. It features 1 runway measuring 8,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago

Temp

68°F

Wind

4 kts

120°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KNFE 282258Z AUTO 12004KT 10SM FEW041 OVC055 20/16 A2994 RMK AO2 SLP140 T02000161

Runways

1 installed

8,000 FT MAX

05/23

8,000 ft × 175

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

83% of ops

25 land · 0 TO

17% of ops

5 land · 5 TO

Runway 05 carries 83% of operations (25 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 17%.

Approach quality

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

05 25 landings

UA 20%

23 5 landings

UA 40%

Approaches to 05 show a 20% unstable-approach rate (5 UA events from 25 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

1.2

flights/day · 35 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 11am · 1pm

Day vs night

77%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 1.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.6 vs 1.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 34 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
APCH	123.900	—
APCH	266.800	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 16 ft
Mag var:: 9° W

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