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PAUO · WOW

Willow Airport

61.75420°N
-150.05200°W
ARR / DAY
16
142.6%
DEP / DAY
11
128.6%

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 16 arrivals and 11 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

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

41m ago
Temp
59°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
PAWS 291756Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 15/10 A2995 RMK AO2 SLP113 T01500100 10156 20078 51007 $

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

31
54% of ops
417 land · 177 TO
13
46% of ops
358 land · 328 TO
Runway 31 carries 54% of operations (417 landings, 177 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

31 417 landings
UA 15%
13 358 landings
UA 19%
Approaches to 31 show a 15% unstable-approach rate (62 UA events from 417 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
20.4
flights/day · 613 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 8pm · 11pm
Day vs night
31%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 10pm–11pm local, averaging 20.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.1× weekday (22.5 vs 20.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (24% of 566 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

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 18:37 UTC