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Willows Glenn County Airport

39.51640°N
-122.21800°W
ARR / DAY
8
▲ 26.1%
DEP / DAY
9
▲ 8.8%

Willows Glenn County Airport (KWLW/WLW) is a small general aviation airport located in Willows, CA, 25 mi south west of Chico. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,506 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 8 arrivals and 9 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From KRBL, 44 mi away (KWLW does not publish METAR)

49m ago
Temp
84°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
KRBL 301654Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 29/13 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP124 T02890128

Runways

2 installed

4,506 FT MAX
13/31
4,210 ft × 100
ASP○ unlit
16/34
4,506 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

34
42% of ops
201 land · 44 TO
16
33% of ops
157 land · 255 TO
31
15% of ops
73 land · 0 TO
13
10% of ops
49 land · 35 TO
Runway 34 carries 42% of operations (201 landings, 44 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 16 at 33%.

Approach quality

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

34 201 landings
UA 5%
16 157 landings
UA 4%
31 73 landings
UA 4%
13 49 landings
UA 20%
Approaches to 34 show a 5% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 201 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
12.3
flights/day · 368 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 4pm · 5pm
Day vs night
66%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 12.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (10.6 vs 13.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

56 · 20%
55 · 20%
33 · 12%
20 · 7%
19 · 7%
10 · 4%
Activity is led by (20% of 280 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
RED BLUF 132.200 —
OTHER 132.200 —
RED BLUF 350.300 —
OTHER 350.300 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZOA
Mag var:
14° E
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

5 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

5
Pilot_1975
9/11/2013
Food
Great restaurant!
Pilot_1975
12/12/2011
Not much to report
I was here! That's about all there is to say. :)
PilotBobSenior
9/25/2011
Food
Food and hotels within walking distance. I saw no active business on the field other than a card lock fuel station.
svanarts
1/21/2009
Nancy's Cafe
On north end of field next to fuel pumps. Great pies. Lots of local color here.
pilotal
7/10/2008
Nice Restaurant
This restaurant is cute and open 24 hrs a day and the gas seems to be less expensive than the surrounding airports and the food was good.
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