KAKH Gastonia Muni

WIND_INFERRED 70%

Runway 3 — favored by the wind (5 kt at 10° true)

Based on wind only — no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency.

certainty: 70% evidence: NONE no tower now

Wind 010° true at 5 kt · VFR · 33 min old · from KCLT (9.7 nm away)

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3 73% 3769 ft · 5 kt head, 2 kt x-left

21 27% 3769 ft · 5 kt TAIL, 2 kt x-right · calm-wind rwy

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

LIGHTING RWY 21 until 10-31 23:59Z

RWY 21 ALS U/S

LIGHTING RWY 3 until 10-31 23:59Z

RWY 03 ALS U/S

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 3

WIND 5 kt headwind, 2 kt left crosswind 33 min ago +0.29

Runway 21

WIND 5 kt TAILWIND, 2 kt right crosswind 33 min ago -1.20
PRIOR 21 is the designated calm-wind runway +0.50

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	33 min	Nearest station KCLT (9.7 nm away)
ADSB	OK	1 min	GOOD
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour.

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KAKH field & runways

Gastonia Muni, Gastonia, North Carolina. Field elevation 798 ft. Non-towered (NON-ATCT). Magnetic variation 6.0°W on record, 7.8°W today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.038°/year west — about 1° every 26 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
21	208.2°	216.1°	runway 22 by the rule today · 6.1° past	3,769 ft	ASPH	left	calm-wind NOISE ABATEMENT: FROM 2200-0600 PILOTS ARE REQUESTED TO USE RWY 21 AS CALM WIND RWY & DO RUNUPS ON RAMP; NOT RWY END. TO AVOID LOW ALT TURNS TO THE WEST REQ CLNC THRU CLASS B ASP FROM CHARLOTTE APCH.
3	28.2°	36.1°	runway 4 by the rule today · 6.1° past	3,769 ft	ASPH	left

What KAKH usually does

Of 332 operations this service has observed at KAKH since 2026-08-25:

3 53% 175 ops
21 47% 157 ops

Observed by this service only — not an FAA statistic, and biased toward the hours and days it has been watching. It is shown because it is the same history the engine learns its local-convention prior from.

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KAKH ☆ Gastonia Muni