- Source: Mount Airy/Surry County Airport
Mount Airy/Surry County Airport (ICAO: KMWK, FAA LID: MWK) is a public use airport located in the unincorporated Holly Springs community three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Mount Airy, a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States. The airport is owned by the city and county. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MWK by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned MWK to Matak-Tarempa Airport in the Anambas Islands, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia). The airport's ICAO identifier is KMWK.
Facilities and aircraft
Mount Airy/Surry County Airport covers an area of 147 acres (59 ha) at an elevation of 1,249 feet (381 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,500 by 75 feet (1,311 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending August 6, 2009, the airport had 17,200 aircraft operations, an average of 47 per day: 93% general aviation, 6% air taxi, and 1% military.
At that time there were 39 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, and 8% jet.
See also
List of airports in North Carolina
References
External links
"Mount Airy/Surry County Airport (MWK)" (PDF). at North Carolina DOT airport guide
Aerial image as of March 1998 from USGS The National Map
FAA Terminal Procedures for MWK, effective October 31, 2024
Resources for this airport:
FAA airport information for MWK
AirNav airport information for KMWK
FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures
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