Tradewind Airport satellite view
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KTDW · TDW

Tradewind Airport

35.16990°N
-101.82600°W
ARR / DAY
25
19.9%
DEP / DAY
33
18.2%

Tradewind Airport (KTDW/TDW) is a small general aviation airport located in Amarillo, TX. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,099 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 25 arrivals and 33 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KAMA, 8 mi away (KTDW does not publish METAR)

39m ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
14 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KAMA 100553Z AUTO 18014KT 10SM CLR 26/09 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP124 T02610094 10361 20261 403830228 51010

Runway intelligence

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

17
79% of ops
1,718 land · 2,266 TO
35
12% of ops
260 land · 253 TO
23
8% of ops
170 land · 43 TO
05
2% of ops
39 land · 7 TO
Runway 17 carries 79% of operations (1,718 landings, 2,266 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

17 1,718 landings
UA 15%
35 260 landings
UA 10%
23 170 landings
UA 19%
05 39 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 17 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (251 UA events from 1,718 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
59.2
flights/day · 1,775 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 3pm · 1pm
Day vs night
70%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–2pm local, averaging 59.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (64.8 vs 59.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (19% of 1,252 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
APCH 119.500
APCH 121.150
APCH 307.000
APCH 307.900
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 118.475
CD/P 125.400
OTHER 125.400
AMARILLO 127.850
OTHER 127.850
AMARILLO 285.475
OTHER 285.475
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZAB
Mag var:
8° E
Fuel:
100LL, A1+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 06:32 UTC