Waterville Robert Lafleur Airport satellite view

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KWVL · WVL

Waterville Robert Lafleur Airport

44.53320°N

-69.67550°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 103.3%

DEP / DAY

▲ 77.3%

Waterville Robert Lafleur Airport (KWVL/WVL) is a small general aviation airport located in Waterville, ME, 124 mi south east of Sherbrooke. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,500 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 9 arrivals and 6 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

12m ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KWVL 131456Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC100 21/16 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP092 60000 T02060161 55000

Runways

2 installed

5,500 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

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

45% of ops

220 land · 88 TO

25% of ops

121 land · 149 TO

18% of ops

90 land · 4 TO

12% of ops

59 land · 8 TO

Runway 05 carries 45% of operations (220 landings, 88 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 23 at 25%.

Approach quality

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

05 220 landings

UA 1%

23 121 landings

UA 5%

14 90 landings

UA 2%

32 59 landings

UA 17%

Approaches to 05 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (3 UA events from 220 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

12.6

flights/day · 378 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 2pm · 1pm

Day vs night

69%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–6pm local, averaging 12.6 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.4× weekday (16.1 vs 11.9 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (18% of 297 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	128.350	—
APCH	299.200	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
AWOS	118.375	—
BANGOR R	124.250	—
OTHER	124.250	—
CD/P	124.600	—
OTHER	124.600	—
WATERBOR	128.200	—
OTHER	128.200	—
WATERBOR	263.050	—
OTHER	263.050	—
BANGOR R	290.500	—
OTHER	290.500	—
CD/P	299.200	—
OTHER	299.200	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZBW
Mag var:: 18° W
Fuel:: 100LL, A+

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

rstan

7/15/2025

Great Airport

Recently visited Very accomidating and friendly

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