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Rockwood Municipal Airport

35.92230°N
-84.68970°W
ARR / DAY
4
13.3%
DEP / DAY
5
7.5%

Rockwood Municipal Airport (KRKW/RKW) is a small general aviation airport located in Rockwood, TN, 43 mi west of Knoxville. It features 1 runway measuring 5,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 4 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

3h ago
Temp
66°F
Wind
0 kts
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
METAR KRKW 270935Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 19/19 A3002 RMK A01

Runways

1 installed

5,000 FT MAX
04/22
5,000 ft × 100
ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

04
57% of ops
68 land · 37 TO
22
43% of ops
52 land · 58 TO
Runway 04 carries 57% of operations (68 landings, 37 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 22 at 43%.

Approach quality

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

04 68 landings
UA 16%
22 52 landings
UA 6%
Approaches to 04 show a 16% unstable-approach rate (11 UA events from 68 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
9.0
flights/day · 269 total
Busy hour (local)
4pm
also 2pm · 1pm
Day vs night
81%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 1pm–4pm local, averaging 9.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (7.5 vs 10.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (17% of 196 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.800
UNICOM 122.800
AWOS 118.775
OTHER 133.600
HINCH MO 133.600
OTHER 254.300
HINCH MO 254.300
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZTL
Mag var:
5° W
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

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

1
W4DY
02/05/2011
Home Base
On the edge of teh Cumberland Plateau.
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