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Wallops Flight Facility airport at Wallops Island (USA)
Wallops Flight Facility airport is located near Wallops Island, with Wattsville at 2mi↑, Captains Cove at 4mi↑, Chincoteague at 5mi↑, Pocomoke City at 11mi↑, Snow Hill at 17mi↑, Worcester County at 19mi↑, Accomac at 19mi↑, Princess Anne at 22mi↑,→ See also Northernmost airports in USA and Southernmost airports in USA
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aerial view of Wallops Flight Facility airport
Airport code
- ICAO code : KWAL
- IATA code : WAL
- Local code : -
Elevation : 12 m = 39ft
→ See also Highest airports in USA and Lowest airports in USA
Runways
- runway 04/22 : 2667m = 8750ft
- runway 10/28 : 2440m = 8005ft
- runway 17/35 : 1465m = 4806ft
→ See also Airports with Longest runways in USA
Coming to Wallops Flight Facility airport
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By plane :
- Wallops Flight Facility airport at 0mi : book on Trip.com
- Accomack County airport at 26mi : book on Trip.com
- Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional airport at 28mi : book on Trip.com
Aviation weather for Wallops Flight Facility airport KWAL WAL
METAR for Wallops Flight Facility airport KWAL WAL
KWAL 150154Z AUTO 04010KT 10SM OVC031 05/01 A3083 RMK AO2 SLP435 T00500006
Decoded METAR for Wallops Flight Facility airport KWAL WAL
METAR issued by KWAL on Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 01:54 UTC. This is an automatically generated METAR, Warning : this METAR is out of date, issued 1 days and 47 hours and -1388 minutes ago.
visibility is 16km = 10sm.
The temperature is 5°C = 41°F, dew point is 1°C = 34°F. The air is very humid : relative air humidity is 75%.
QNH is 1044hPa = 30.83inHg
Wind 19km/h = 10kt, direction is 40°.
Clouds : overcast at 3100ft = 940m.
Remarks : automatic station with precipitation sensor Sea Level Pressure SLP=435 T00500006
No TAF for Wallops Flight Facility airport
but aviation weather is available at Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional airport (KSBY) at 28mi↑
NOTAM for Wallops Flight Facility airport
Around Wallops Flight Facility airport at Wallops Island (USA)
near
- Hotels in Wattsville
- Renaissance Philadelphia Downtown Hotel (Philadelphia) at 140mi↑
- MoMA (New York) at 211mi↑
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao) at 3702mi↑
- Hotel NH Collection San Sebastián Aránzazu (San Sebastián) at 3744mi↑
- Sercotel Codina (San Sebastian) at 3744mi↑
- Aquarium de Donostia-San Sebastián (San Sebastian) at 3744mi↑
- Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra (San Sebastian) at 3745mi↑
- San Sebastian at 3745mi↑
- Eureka! Zientzia Museoa (San Sebastiàn) at 3746mi↑
- Saint-Jean-de-Luz at 3758mi↑
- Hôtel Txoko (Saint-Jean-de-Luz) at 3758mi↑
- Grand Hôtel Thalasso & Spa (Saint-Jean-de-Luz) at 3758mi↑
- for Wallops Flight Facility airport at 0mi↑
- for Wallops Island Drone Runway airport at 4mi↑
- for Taylor airport at 5mi↑
nearest airports to Wallops Flight Facility airport at Wallops Island (USA)
- Wallops Island Drone Runway airport ( US-7081) at 4mi↑
- Taylor airport ( 4VA6) at 5mi↑
- Boomers Field airport ( 7MD7) at 8mi↑
- Sawyer airport ( VG19) at 8mi↑
- High Hopes airport ( VA41) at 8mi↑
- Fair's airport ( MD00) at 9mi↑
- Beverly airport ( MD57) at 9mi↑
- Midway airport ( VG56) at 12mi↑
- Crippen Creek Farm airport ( 9VA3) at 14mi↑defunct airport
- Murphy airport ( US-7503) at 15mi↑defunct airport
- Anderson Farm airport ( 2MD0) at 15mi↑
- Le Champ airport ( 48MD) at 18mi↑
→ See also Former airports in USA
Data sources
- METAR : AVWX
- TAF : AVWX
- Météo générale : Openweathermap et AVWX
- NOTAM : FAA
- VAC : France DGAC/SIA, Espagne ENAIRE, Belgique SKEYES
- Aerial maps : Google Maps, Microsoft Bing ou OpenStreetMap