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Tappahannock-Essex County Airport satellite view

📍 Tappahannock⬆ 135 ft1 runways

KXSA ·

Tappahannock-Essex County Airport

37.85960°N

-76.89410°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 16.7%

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Runways

1 installed

4,300 FT MAX

10/28

4,300 ft × 75

ASPH-E○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

72% of ops

64 land · 9 TO

28% of ops

25 land · 11 TO

Runway 10 carries 72% of operations (64 landings, 9 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 28 at 28%.

Approach quality

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

10 64 landings

UA 0%

28 25 landings

UA 12%

Approaches to 10 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 64 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

4.1

flights/day · 124 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 1pm · 4pm

Day vs night

79%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 4.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (4.0 vs 4.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 112 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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