KNKT Runway 05L/23R — Cherry Point MCAS / Cunningham Field/
8,489 × 196 ft asphalt · true headings 046° / 226° · field elevation 29 ft
Runway 05L/23R at Cherry Point MCAS / Cunningham Field/ (KNKT) in Cherry Point, NC is 8,489 ft long and 196 ft wide, asphalt, with true headings 046° and 226°. Over 2005–2025 the wind gave runway 05L the headwind 46% of the time and runway 23R 54%, with a crosswind above 15 kt in 1.7% of wind hours. KNKT has no digital ATIS, so the active runway is not known; the wind-favored end and the ATIS Alerts prediction are estimates.
Runway 05L/23R — current operational status
What the D-ATIS, the tower and current NOTAMs state now. The published FAA baseline (NASR) is a separate line in the overview below and does not reflect temporary closures.
- No received NOTAM closes or restricts this runway, but the NOTAM stream has no complete initial load and the airport has no tower or D-ATIS feed. No current closure information.
Sources: Published FAA baseline (OurAirports/NASR record) · FAA NOTAMs. Runway NOTAMs stream live from the FAA NOTAM Management Service (SWIM); the official text is shown verbatim below the card. Always confirm with a current briefing.
No received NOTAM currently names runway 05L/23R at KNKT. NOTAMs are received live from the FAA NOTAM Management Service through SWIM and recorded since Sep 19, 2026; a NOTAM issued before that and not re-issued since may be missing. Get a full briefing before flight.
Current runway assignment is not available from D-ATIS at KNKT. The wind components below show which end the wind favors; the section after it is an ATIS Alerts prediction. Neither is an ATC assignment.
Current wind on Runway 05L/23R
Wind from the north-northeast (020°) at 8 kt
- Headwind
- 7 kt
- Crosswind
- 3 ktfrom left
- Tailwind
- 7 kt
- Crosswind
- 3 ktfrom right
- arrivals
- departures
- LAHSO hold-short
- closed
Layout from FAA NASR runway-end coordinates; the selected runway is highlighted and no active source exists here. Not for navigation. Official FAA diagram ↗
Components use TRUE runway headings and TRUE METAR wind. “Favored by wind” is arithmetic, not an ATC assignment.
Runway 05L/23R outlook
Where runway 05L/23R stands now and which runway at KNKT is likely over the next 12 hours — an estimate, not an ATC assignment.
Time · runway 05L/23R · airport-wide outlook · confidence · forecast wind · why
- Now0246Z · 10:46 PM EDT·05L/23R: 05L likely·airport-wide likely 05L then 05R·Northeast flow·7 kt headwind, 3 kt crosswind·Low 50%·wind 020° at 8 kt·Why Current METAR wind 020° at 8 kt favors north-facing runway ends: 7 kt headwind and 3 kt crosswind on 05L versus 7 kt headwind on 05R.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.
- +1 h0346Z · 11:46 PM EDT·05L/23R: 05L likely·airport-wide likely 05L then 05R·Northeast flow·10 kt headwind, 1 kt crosswind·Low 47%·wind 040° at 10 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 040° at 10 kt favors northeast-facing runway ends: 10 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind on 05L versus 10 kt headwind on 05R.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+1 h).
- +2 h0446Z · 12:46 AM EDT·05L/23R: 05L likely·airport-wide likely 05L then 05R·Northeast flow·10 kt headwind, 1 kt crosswind·Low 44%·wind 040° at 10 kt·Why TAF forecast wind 040° at 10 kt favors northeast-facing runway ends: 10 kt headwind and 1 kt crosswind on 05L versus 10 kt headwind on 05R.|No known runway closure prevents this configuration.|Confidence falls with forecast distance (+2 h).
- +3 h0546Z · 1:46 AM EDT·05L/23R: no runway favored·no runway favored airport-wide·no confidence·wind VRB at 6 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 6 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|No recorded calm-wind preference yet, so no end is favored.
- +6 h0846Z · 4:46 AM EDT·05L/23R: no runway favored·no runway favored airport-wide·no confidence·wind VRB at 6 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 6 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|No recorded calm-wind preference yet, so no end is favored.
- +12 h1446Z · 10:46 AM EDT·05L/23R: no runway favored·no runway favored airport-wide·no confidence·wind VRB at 6 kt·Why TAF wind variable at 6 kt: no steady direction, so wind does not decide the runway.|No recorded calm-wind preference yet, so no end is favored.
ATIS Alerts Predicted Runway is an estimate from the TAF wind forecast, runway geometry (most headwind, crosswind penalised, tailwind over 5 kt avoided, longest runway breaks ties), the current stated configuration and any stated closures. Each row lists its reasons; “no runway favored” is a genuine answer under variable or light wind, never replaced by a guess. It is not an ATC assignment and does not know about noise abatement or traffic flow unless the recorded history shows them. TAF issued 2300Z (7:00 PM EDT).
Runway 05L/23R equipment and lighting
What the FAA record lists for each end, annotated with current NOTAM and D-ATIS outages.
- Approach lighting
- Not available
- Visual glide slope
- Not available
- Runway edge lighting
- HIRL (high intensity)
- Centerline lighting
- Not available
- Touchdown zone lighting
- Not available
- REIL
- Not available
- ILS
- Not available
- Localizer
- Not available
- Glideslope
- Not available
- DME
- Not available
- Marker beacons
- Not available
- RVR
- Not available
- Runway markings
- Precision instrument
- Arresting system
- Not available
- Approach lighting
- MALSR
- Visual glide slope
- PAPI (4-box, left side)
- Runway edge lighting
- HIRL (high intensity)
- Centerline lighting
- Not available
- Touchdown zone lighting
- Not available
- REIL
- Available
- ILS
- ILS/DME
- Localizer
- Available
- Glideslope
- Available
- DME
- Available
- Marker beacons
- Not available
- RVR
- Not available
- Runway markings
- Precision instrument
- Arresting system
- E28
Source: FAA NASR 28-day subscription, cycle effective 2026-10-01 (equipment on record) · FAA NOTAMs via SWIM (live)and the current D-ATIS (outages). “Not available” means the FAA record lists no such equipment for the end; nothing here is inferred. An outage annotation is only ever a reading of the official text shown with it. Declared distances are not shown in this phase.
Land and hold short operations
LAHSO hold-short points and available landing distances on the FAA record, and whether the current D-ATIS reports LAHSO in effect.
No LAHSO hold-short point on the FAA record for this end.
No LAHSO hold-short point on the FAA record for this end.
This airport has no D-ATIS, so the current LAHSO state is not known here. Source: FAA NASR cycle 2026-10-01; D-ATIS text read by ATIS Alerts.
Frequencies for runway 05L/23R
Tower, ground, clearance, ATIS and approach frequencies from the FAA record, labelled by what they apply to.
| Service | Frequency | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Tower | 121.3 | Airport-wide |
| Tower | 340.2 | Airport-wide |
| Ground | 128.625 | Airport-wide |
| Ground | 239.025 | Airport-wide |
| Clearance delivery | 125.95 | Airport-wide |
| Clearance delivery | 316.125 | Airport-wide |
| ATIS | 127.475 | Airport-wide |
| ATIS | 244.875 | Airport-wide |
Show all frequencies (11 more: approach and departure sectors, secondary and other)
| Service | Frequency | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Tower (secondary) | 360.2 | Airport-wide |
| Approach / departure | 119.35 | Sector: (W) |
| Approach / departure | 119.75 | Sector: EAST ABV 3000 FT |
| Approach / departure | 124.1 | Sector: (H) |
| Approach / departure | 124.1 | Airport-wide |
| Approach / departure | 132.575 | Sector: EAST 3000 FT & BLW |
| Approach / departure | 268.7 | Sector: (H) |
| Approach / departure | 268.7 | Airport-wide |
| Approach / departure | 299.6 | Sector: EAST 3000 FT & BLW |
| Approach / departure | 360.775 | Sector: EAST ABV 3000 FT |
| Approach / departure | 377.175 | Sector: (W) |
The FAA record does not sectorize KNKT's frequencies by runway; every row applies airport-wide. Source: FAA NASR FRQ, cycle 2026-10-01. Verify on the current chart supplement before use.
Runway 05L/23R overview
Physical characteristics from the FAA-derived runway record.
- Length
- 8,489 ft
- Width
- 196 ft
- Surface
- Asphalt
- PCN
- 80
- Runway lights
- Lighted
- Airport elevation
- 29 ft
- Published FAA baseline
- Open
- Published NASR record; does not reflect temporary closures or restrictions. Current operational status is the card at the top of the page.
- True heading
- 046°
- Magnetic
- 055°
- Published FAA baseline
- Open
- Threshold elevation
- 24 ft
- TDZ elevation
- 28 ft
- Displaced threshold
- 935 ft
- True heading
- 226°
- Magnetic
- 235°
- Published FAA baseline
- Open
- Threshold elevation
- 19 ft
- TDZ elevation
- 23 ft
- Displaced threshold
- None on record
- Threshold crossing height
- 71 ft
- Visual glide path
- 3°
Runway 05L/23R numbers are magnetic; the stored geometry and every wind calculation on this page are TRUE north, so they never need a variation correction. Magnetic headings use the FAA's published variation for this airport, 9.0°W (1990), the same value printed on the FAA airport diagram. Surface condition, treatment, weight bearing, thresholds and traffic pattern are from the FAA NASR record (cycle 2026-10-01); lighting, ILS and LAHSO are in their own sections above. Declared distances are not shown in this phase.
Wind-favored runway at KNKT — last 30 days
Which runway end had the most headwind each hour, from ATIS Alerts' collected wind history — an estimate, not ATC use.
Share of hours each runway had the most headwind. From wind reports, not ATC assignments.
- 05L/05R
- 58%
- 23L/23R
- 17%
- 32L/32R
- 17%
- 14L/14R
- 8%
Historical wind and crosswind on runway 05L/23R
20-year hourly climatology from the ASOS archive, computed per runway end.
From 170,375 hourly observations at KNKT (2005–2025), 142,699 with a steady wind direction (16.2% calm, variable or direction-less). One observation per clock hour; TRUE headings against TRUE wind. Note: this station is flagged in the Flying Weather Index (Military installation - excluded from public civil-aviation rankings (name-based screen, methodology v1).); treat these numbers as indicative.
Crosswind on runway 05L/23R (either end)
| Crosswind (kt) | Share of wind hours |
|---|---|
| 0–5 | 67.4% |
| 5–10 | 24.7% |
| 10–15 | 6.2% |
| 15–20 | 1.4% |
| 20–25 | 0.3% |
| 25+ | 0.1% |
Strongest-crosswind month on average: Jan; calmest: Jul. Percentiles are streaming approximations (t-digest), accurate to about 0.1 kt.
Runway 05L
Runway 23R
“Most wind-favored end” is meteorological analysis: the share of steady-wind hours (2005–2025) in which this end had the most headwind of every open runway end at KNKT. It does not mean ATC selected the runway that often (parallel ends with the same heading share the credit equally). Observed runway use, where available, is the configuration-history section above.
By wind direction
| Wind from | Share of wind hours | 05L favored | 23R favored | Mean crosswind | Crosswind > 15 kt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N 338–023° | 17% | 24.3% | 0% | 6.4 kt | 2.1% |
| NE 023–068° | 15% | 50% | 0% | 1.6 kt | 0% |
| E 068–113° | 7% | 34.5% | 0% | 4.1 kt | 0.4% |
| SE 113–158° | 6% | 0% | 0% | 6.2 kt | 2.6% |
| S 158–203° | 17% | 0% | 29.1% | 4.9 kt | 0.5% |
| SW 203–248° | 20% | 0% | 50% | 1.5 kt | 0% |
| W 248–293° | 10% | 0% | 31.5% | 6 kt | 1.9% |
| NW 293–338° | 8% | 0% | 0% | 9.1 kt | 10.8% |
By time of day (airport-local)
Seasonal runway conditions
| Month | Mean crosswind (kt) |
|---|---|
| Jan | 5.4 kt |
| Feb | 5.1 kt |
| Mar | 5.3 kt |
| Apr | 4.9 kt |
| May | 4.4 kt |
| Jun | 3.7 kt |
| Jul | 3.4 kt |
| Aug | 3.4 kt |
| Sep | 4.0 kt |
| Oct | 4.5 kt |
| Nov | 5.0 kt |
| Dec | 4.6 kt |
| Month | Prevailing | Mean wind | Gusty | Mean xw | xw > 10 | xw > 15 | xw > 20 | 05L tail > 5 | 23R tail > 5 | IFR | TS | Fog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | N | 7.7 kt | 15.6% | 5.4 kt | 14.8% | 3.7% | 0.8% | 27.9% | 24.2% | 9.7% | 0.1% | 9.8% |
| Feb | N | 8.3 kt | 19.9% | 5.1 kt | 12.6% | 3.3% | 0.5% | 31.4% | 28.1% | 10.9% | 0.14% | 8.8% |
| Mar | S | 8.7 kt | 23.4% | 5.3 kt | 12.9% | 3.1% | 0.6% | 32.3% | 30.1% | 8.8% | 0.42% | 6.7% |
| Apr | SW | 8.6 kt | 25.7% | 4.9 kt | 9.7% | 2.1% | 0.3% | 40.6% | 22.7% | 5.4% | 0.74% | 4.9% |
| May | S | 7.7 kt | 19.2% | 4.4 kt | 6.1% | 1% | 0.2% | 35.9% | 23.2% | 5.2% | 1.15% | 6.3% |
| Jun | SW | 6.8 kt | 12.4% | 3.7 kt | 2.6% | 0.3% | 0% | 39.9% | 15.2% | 3% | 2.93% | 6.2% |
| Jul | SW | 6.5 kt | 11.6% | 3.4 kt | 1.7% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 44.9% | 11.7% | 2.5% | 3.94% | 6.4% |
| Aug | S | 5.7 kt | 6% | 3.4 kt | 1.8% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 25.8% | 21.5% | 3.8% | 3.09% | 7.5% |
| Sep | NE | 6.8 kt | 9.6% | 4 kt | 4.4% | 1% | 0.3% | 13.2% | 41.8% | 6.1% | 1.5% | 7.1% |
| Oct | N | 6.8 kt | 10.3% | 4.5 kt | 7.5% | 1.3% | 0.3% | 17.3% | 35.7% | 7.8% | 0.26% | 7.5% |
| Nov | N | 7.3 kt | 12.4% | 5 kt | 11.2% | 2% | 0.2% | 17.3% | 37.7% | 8.6% | 0.11% | 7.5% |
| Dec | N | 7.1 kt | 12.8% | 4.6 kt | 9.7% | 1.9% | 0.2% | 26% | 27.1% | 9.7% | 0.12% | 9.5% |
IFR, thunderstorm (TS) and fog columns are airport-wide shares of hours; the crosswind and tailwind columns are specific to this runway. Prevailing = most common 45° wind sector among wind hours.
Runway 05L/23R closure history
Kept per source with its provenance: D-ATIS-observed, NOTAM-observed and the FAA published baseline are never merged.
KNKT has no D-ATIS, so there is no broadcast-observed closure record.
- M0287/26 · closure (full) · runway 05L/23Reffective 2026-09-23 11:00Z → 2026-09-23 13:00Z · first seen 2026-09-23 02:35Z · last seen 2026-09-23 02:35Z
RWY 05L/23R CLSD CAUTION PAEW ON RUNWAY WEDNESDAY SEPT 23 2026 0700L-0900L (1100Z-1300Z)
Runway 05L/23R: Open on the published record — a baseline that does not reflect temporary closures or restrictions, not the current operational status.
Recent pilot reports involving runway 05L/23R
Official PIREPs that name this runway explicitly, past 6 hours.
No pilot report in the last 6 hours names runway 05L/23R at KNKT explicitly. Reports near the airport that do not name a runway are on the airport page.
Instrument approaches to runway 05L/23R
From the FAA d-TPP, linked to the official plates.
Runway 05L
No straight-in instrument approach published to this end.
Runway 23R
- TACANCOPTER TACAN RWY 23R ↗
- ILSILS OR LOC/DME RWY 23R ↗precision
- RNAV (GPS)RNAV (GPS) RWY 23R ↗
No departure procedures · FAA d-TPP cycle 2611. Plates open on aeronav.faa.gov (public domain); ATIS Alerts does not reproduce charts or minimums.
Methodology and sources
Short version below; the full write-up is at Runway Intelligence methodology, and every launched airport is listed on the Runway Intelligence hub.
- Active runwayscome first from the tower's TFDM (Terminal Flight Data Manager) airport configuration, received as structured data through the FAA SWIM Cloud Distribution Service at towers that have it; otherwise from the airport's D-ATIS text (community relay of the FAA broadcast) with an open, tested parser, and the broadcast text is always shown. Every change is recorded, so “recorded use” is what the facility stated, never an inference. ATIS Alerts is not an FAA product and this is not FAA data; SWIM content is for non-operational use.
- Flowis the compass direction of the stated arrival ends (eight sectors, named only when every arrival end points within 30° of the others and clear of a sector edge); a tower's own configuration name is used when it carries a direction word. Stored separately from the runway sets.
- Equipment, LAHSO and frequencies come from the FAA NASR 28-day subscription (cycle 2026-10-01): approach lights, visual glide slope, edge / centerline / touchdown-zone lights, REIL, ILS components with FAA status, RVR, markings, LAHSO hold-short points and available landing distances, and facility frequencies with their published sectorization. Outage annotations are readings of the NOTAM or D-ATIS text shown beside them. Blank FAA fields read “Not available”.
- Wind components use the current METAR (aviationweather.gov) against TRUE runway headings from the OurAirports/FAA runway record.
- Runway visual range, tower demand and traffic-management restrictions come from FAA SWIM: STDDS Airport Data (RVR and light settings, about 130 airports) and TFDM (15-minute runway demand, APREQ/MIT restrictions). Each block is stamped with its own time; none of it is an FAA product or a clearance.
- Predicted runway scores each open end from the TAF wind (headwind, crosswind penalty, tailwind avoidance, longest-runway tie-break), excludes stated closures, and — once a wind sector has 24 h of recorded use — adjusts confidence by what the facility did under similar wind; every row lists its reasons. It does not model noise abatement or flow programs beyond what the record shows.
- History thresholds: usage shares need 12 / 48 / 168 recorded hours for the 24-hour / 7-day / 30-day windows; a wind sector needs 24 h and 5 days; time-of-day needs 7 days and 20 h per daypart; flow shares need 48 h. Below a bar the module says so instead of showing a percentage.
- Climatology: Iowa Environmental Mesonet ASOS archive, one observation per hour, 45° wind sectors, percentiles via t-digest; runway geometry is today's record applied to all years. Methodology v1.
- PIREPs: official reports from aviationweather.gov are attached only when the text names this runway and the report is tied to KNKT by identifier or by position within 15 NM. Approaches: FAA d-TPP metafile, current charting cycle; plates link to aeronav.faa.gov. No minimums are reproduced.
- Data freshness: METAR and D-ATIS refresh every minute on this page; the D-ATIS recorder ran 1 min ago; usage rollups every 3 h; climatology through 2025-12-31.
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