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VG40 ·

Woody Field Airport

36.88360°N

-79.85230°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

Woody Field Airport (VG40) is a small general aviation airport located in Rocky Mount, VA, 27 mi south of Roanoke. It features 1 runway measuring 2,000 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 1 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KROA, 31 mi away (VG40 does not publish METAR)

26m ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

3 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KROA 151454Z VRB03KT 10SM SCT040 BKN070 28/21 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP215 T02780211 51004 $

Runways

1 installed

2,000 FT MAX

16/34

2,000 ft × 80

GRS○ unlitMED

Runway intelligence

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

96% of ops

27 land · 0 TO

4% of ops

1 land · 0 TO

Runway 16 carries 96% of operations (27 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 34 at 4%.

Approach quality

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

16 27 landings

UA 7%

34 1 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 16 show a 7% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 27 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

0.5

flights/day · 15 total

Busy hour (local)

2pm

also 3pm · 4pm

Day vs night

87%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–4pm local, averaging 0.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.0× weekday (0.5 vs 0.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 40%

2 · 13%

1 · 7%

Activity is led by (40% of 15 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZDC
Elevation:: 1,157 ft
Mag var:: 8° W

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