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Tappahannock-Essex County Airport

37.85960°N
-76.89410°W
ARR / DAY
2
▲ 100.0%
DEP / DAY
5
▲ 400.0%

Tappahannock-Essex County Airport (KXSA) is a small general aviation airport located in Tappahannock, VA, 38 mi north east of Richmond. It features 1 runway measuring 4,300 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

11h ago
Temp
64°F
Wind
0 kts
0°
Visib
—
Ceil
—
METAR KXSA 191915Z AUTO 00000KT CLR 18/06 A3033 RMK AO2 T01770055 PWINO

Runways

1 installed

4,300 FT MAX
10/28
4,300 ft × 75
ASPH-E○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

10
100% of ops
30 land · 1 TO
28
0% of ops
0 land · 17 TO
Runway 10 carries 100% of operations (30 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 0%.

Approach quality

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

10 30 landings
UA 0%
28 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 10 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 30 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
2.2
flights/day · 66 total
Busy hour (local)
8pm
also 3pm · 4pm
Day vs night
70%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 2.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.5× weekday (1.2 vs 2.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (27% of 63 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800 —
APCH 126.400 —
APCH 282.375 —
UNICOM 122.800 —
AWOS 125.775 —
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZDC
Mag var:
11° W
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
david
5/21/2008
New airport
This is a newly-built airport which opened in 2007, to replace nearby Tappahannock Municipal Airport (W79).
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