Wilkes County Airport satellite view
📍 North Wilkesboro⬆ 1,301 ft1 runways
KUKF · IKB

Wilkes County Airport

36.22280°N
-81.09830°W
ARR / DAY
5
▲ 38.5%
DEP / DAY
6
▲ 131.6%

Wilkes County Airport (KUKF/IKB) is a small general aviation airport located in North Wilkesboro, NC, 48 mi west of Winston-Salem. It features 1 runway measuring 6,200 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20m ago
Temp
52°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
METAR KUKF 121315Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 11/07 A2966 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

6,200 FT MAX
01/19
6,200 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

01
90% of ops
128 land · 9 TO
19
10% of ops
15 land · 44 TO
Runway 01 carries 90% of operations (128 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 10%.

Approach quality

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

01 128 landings
UA 0%
19 15 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 01 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 128 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
9.8
flights/day · 293 total
Busy hour (local)
2pm
also 4pm · 3pm
Day vs night
82%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 2pm–3pm local, averaging 9.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.6× weekday (6.9 vs 11.3 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (18% of 211 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-10-29
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.700 —
UNICOM 122.700 —
AWOS 126.625 —
OTHER 122.400 —
WILKESBO 122.400 —
HICKORY 125.150 —
OTHER 125.150 —
HICKORY 263.000 —
OTHER 263.000 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
8° W
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 13:35 UTC