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PAUO · WOW

Willow Airport

61.75420°N

-150.05200°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Willow Airport (PAUO/WOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Willow, AK, 38 mi north of Anchorage. It features 1 runway measuring 4,400 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Wind

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

4,400 FT MAX

13/31

4,400 ft × 75

GRAVEL-G○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

54% of ops

574 land · 217 TO

46% of ops

497 land · 528 TO

Runway 31 carries 54% of operations (574 landings, 217 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 46%.

Approach quality

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

31 574 landings

UA 14%

13 497 landings

UA 19%

Approaches to 31 show a 14% unstable-approach rate (81 UA events from 574 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

14.4

flights/day · 432 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 10pm · 12am

Day vs night

28%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 12am–8pm local, averaging 14.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (14.6 vs 15.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (21% of 407 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
BIG LAKE	133.700	—
OTHER	133.700	—
BIG LAKE	279.600	—
OTHER	279.600	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAN
Mag var:: 21° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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