Moore County Airport satellite view
📍 Pinehurst/Southern Pines⬆ 455 ft2 runways
KSOP · SOP

Moore County Airport

35.23740°N
-79.39120°W
ARR / DAY
21
▲ 23.3%
DEP / DAY
25
▲ 3.6%

Moore County Airport (KSOP/SOP) is a small general aviation airport located in Pinehurst/Southern Pines, NC, 32 mi north west of Fayetteville. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,503 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 21 arrivals and 25 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11m ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
3 kts
50°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KSOP 111456Z AUTO 05003KT 10SM CLR 18/07 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP169 6//// T01830072 58001 PNO $

Runway intelligence

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

05
44% of ops
272 land · 402 TO
23
32% of ops
197 land · 57 TO
14
18% of ops
115 land · 8 TO
32
6% of ops
38 land · 8 TO
Runway 05 carries 44% of operations (272 landings, 402 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 32%.

Approach quality

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

05 272 landings
UA 3%
23 197 landings
UA 1%
14 115 landings
UA 6%
32 38 landings
UA 13%
Approaches to 05 show a 3% unstable-approach rate (8 UA events from 272 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
41.3
flights/day · 1,238 total
Busy hour (local)
7pm
also 6pm · 3pm
Day vs night
68%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 3pm–7pm local, averaging 41.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (38.9 vs 44.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (29% of 761 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 123.050 —
APCH 127.800 —
APCH 343.725 —
UNICOM 123.050 —
AWOS 127.575 —
CD/P 127.000 —
OTHER 127.000 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDC
Mag var:
8° W
Fuel:
100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 15:07 UTC