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Powhatan Airport

38.24850°N

-77.21910°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 20.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Powhatan Airport (VA57) is a small general aviation airport located in King George, VA, 40 mi south of Alexandria. It features 1 runway measuring 4,888 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KNYG, 18 mi away (VA57 does not publish METAR)

57m ago

Temp

87°F

Wind

10 kts

160°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KNYG 271756Z 16010KT 7SM BKN150 31/23 A2997 RMK AO2 SLP151 T03060233 10311 20239 56012

Runways

1 installed

4,888 FT MAX

E/W

4,888 ft × 50

ASP● LITLOW

Runway intelligence

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

96% of ops

23 land · 0 TO

4% of ops

1 land · 0 TO

Runway E carries 96% of operations (23 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is W at 4%.

Approach quality

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

E 23 landings

UA 30%

W 1 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to E 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

0.8

flights/day · 23 total

Busy hour (local)

1pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

70%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–3pm local, averaging 0.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.0× weekday (0.0 vs 1.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

5 · 22%

3 · 13%

2 · 9%

Activity is led by (22% of 23 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 60 ft
Mag var:: 9° W

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