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Rockwood Municipal Airport

35.92230°N
-84.68970°W
ARR / DAY
4
▼ 23.7%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 4.8%

Rockwood Municipal Airport (KRKW/RKW) is a small general aviation airport located in Rockwood, TN, 43 mi west of Knoxville. It features 1 runway measuring 4,995 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

21m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
4 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KRKW 192215Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM CLR 18/05 A3031 RMK A01

Runways

1 installed

4,995 FT MAX
04/22
4,995 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

04
53% of ops
68 land · 62 TO
22
47% of ops
61 land · 45 TO
Runway 04 carries 53% of operations (68 landings, 62 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 47%.

Approach quality

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

04 68 landings
UA 9%
22 61 landings
UA 7%
Approaches to 04 show a 9% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 68 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
9.5
flights/day · 286 total
Busy hour (local)
5pm
also 4pm · 3pm
Day vs night
74%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 9.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (7.0 vs 11.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (12% of 210 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 118.775 —
OTHER 133.600 —
HINCH MO 133.600 —
OTHER 254.300 —
HINCH MO 254.300 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
5° W
Fuel:
100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
W4DY
2/5/2011
Home Base
On the edge of teh Cumberland Plateau.
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