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PAUO · WOW

Willow Airport

61.75420°N

-150.05200°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.9%

DEP / DAY

▲ 23.5%

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. SkyMeter has observed roughly 17 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 1 total

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Current weather

From PAWS, 21 mi away (PAUO does not publish METAR)

40m ago

Temp

57°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

PAWS 122156Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM OVC014 14/12 A3032 RMK AO2 SLP237 T01390117 $

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

56% of ops

501 land · 257 TO

44% of ops

389 land · 337 TO

Runway 31 carries 56% of operations (501 landings, 257 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 13 at 44%.

Approach quality

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

31 501 landings

UA 15%

13 389 landings

UA 24%

Approaches to 31 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (74 UA events from 501 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

22.2

flights/day · 666 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 10pm · 7pm

Day vs night

33%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–7pm local, averaging 22.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (27.5 vs 21.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (26% of 606 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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