Southern Wake Regional
5W5 · Raleigh, North Carolina · Wake County · map
Southern Wake Regional is a public-use airport owned by 5W5, LLC, 11 miles southwest of Raleigh, North Carolina, 243 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 4,005 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5W5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- 5W5, LLC
- Elevation
- 243 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1975
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 4,005 × 50 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 16: trees 60 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees 65 ft high 669 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 |
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Aircraft registered in Raleigh from the FAA register
352 aircraft are registered to owners in Raleigh, North Carolina: 229 piston singles, 45 business jets, 27 turboprops, 14 piston twins, 11 gliders. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR use only.
- DUSK-2400 activate low-intensity runway lights - the common traffic frequency. No the common traffic frequency prior to dusk.
- No threshold lights.
- 75 feet trees 0-200 feet from threshold offset 9 feet right of centerline; 52 feet trees 0-200 feet from threshold offset 35 feet left of centerline.
- 60 feet trees 180 feet from threshold offset 111 feet right of centerline.
- Centerline mrkg only.
- Centerline mrkg only.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Be alert for rising trrn all quads.
- Tower (500 feet AGL/ 826 feet above sea level) approx 1.75 NM northwest of airport.
- Taxiway lights one side only.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.