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NC06 ·

Elk River Airport

36.16040°N

-81.89680°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 66.7%

Elk River Airport (NC06) is a small general aviation airport located in Banner Elk, NC, 88 mi north west of Charlotte. It features 1 runway measuring 4,600 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KTRI, 36 mi away (NC06 does not publish METAR)

40m ago

Temp

70°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KTRI 141053Z 00000KT 7SM BKN047 BKN065 OVC100 21/21 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP184 FRQ LTGIC DSNT S T02110206

Runways

1 installed

4,600 FT MAX

12/30

4,600 ft × 75

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

79% of ops

23 land · 6 TO

21% of ops

6 land · 14 TO

Runway 12 carries 79% of operations (23 landings, 6 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 21%.

Approach quality

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

12 23 landings

UA 30%

30 6 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 12 show a 30% unstable-approach rate (7 UA events from 23 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

1.0

flights/day · 31 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 2pm · 8pm

Day vs night

68%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–8pm local, averaging 1.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.1× weekday (0.1 vs 1.4 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (32% of 31 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.975	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZTL
Elevation:: 3,468 ft
Mag var:: 5° W

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