Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International
AVP · KAVP · Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania · Luzerne County · map
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International is a public-use airport owned by Luzerne and Lackawanna CO, 5 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania, 962 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 7,502 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 33 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 42,268 takeoffs and landings a year. About 202,167 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Weather right now KAVP · observed 1:54 pm EDT (17:54 UTC), 45 minutes ago
MVFR flyable but watch the ceiling and visibility
- Wind from the north-northwest (330°) at 9 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: overcast at 2,200 feet
- Temperature 64°F (18°C), dew point 56°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 29.90 inHg
The forecast issued Mon 1:30 pm EDT (17:30 UTC), good until Tue 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Mon 2:00 pm EDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the west-northwest at 6 knots, gusting to 14, visibility more than 6 miles, a broken layer at 1,500 feet MVFR
- From Mon 5:00 pm EDT (21:00 UTC): wind from the west-northwest at 7 knots, gusting to 15, visibility more than 6 miles, a broken layer at 4,000 feet VFR
- From Mon 10:00 pm EDT (02:00 UTC): wind from the south-southwest at 2 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a broken layer at 25,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KAVP 121754Z 33009KT 10SM OVC022 18/13 A2990 RMK AO2 SLP121 T01780133 10178 20128 58006 $
TAF KAVP 121730Z 1218/1318 30006G14KT P6SM BKN015 FM122100 30007G15KT P6SM BKN040 FM130200 21002KT P6SM BKN250
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
1 warning in force over this field:
- AIRMET SIERRA 4E: mountains obscured by cloud (due to mountains obscured by clouds, mist).
12 pilot reports within 100 nautical miles in the last three hours, the nearest three:
- E145 at 4,000 ft, 0 nm north, 2:12 pm EDT (18:12 UTC): overcast above 3,000 ft.
as filed, and in English
AVP UA /OV AVP/TM 1812/FL040/TP E145/SK OVC030
- Report
- a routine report filed through AVP
- Where
- over AVP
- Time
- 18:12 UTC
- Height
- at 4,000 ft
- Aircraft
- E145
- Sky
- overcast from 3,000 ft
- CRJ9 at 4,000 ft, 0 nm north, 1:59 pm EDT (17:59 UTC): overcast above 2,800 ft.
as filed, and in English
AVP UA /OV AVP/TM 1759/FL040/TP CRJ9/SK OVC028
- Report
- a routine report filed through AVP
- Where
- over AVP
- Time
- 17:59 UTC
- Height
- at 4,000 ft
- Aircraft
- CRJ9
- Sky
- overcast from 2,800 ft
- PA31 at 4,000 ft, 24 nm southwest, 11:41 am EDT (15:41 UTC): overcast from 2,400 ft to 3,000 ft.
as filed, and in English
AVP UA /OV HZL/TM 1541/FL040/TP PA31/SK OVC024-TOP030
- Report
- a routine report filed through AVP
- Where
- over HZL
- Time
- 15:41 UTC
- Height
- at 4,000 ft
- Aircraft
- PA31
- Sky
- overcast from 2,400 ft, tops 3,000 ft
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (AVP), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 330° at 21 kt; 6,000 ft: 340° at 24 kt, 14 °C; 9,000 ft: 350° at 27 kt, 9 °C; 12,000 ft: 350° at 25 kt, 3 °C; 18,000 ft: 330° at 29 kt, -8 °C.
No temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles.
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AVP · ICAO KAVP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Luzerne and Lackawanna CO
- Elevation
- 962 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1947
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 7,502 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 10/28 | 4,300 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 22: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 112 ft high 4,567 ft from the end
- Runway 10: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 28: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 21 ft high 348 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 135.75 | Wilkes-Barre |
| Clearance delivery Contact Wilkes Barre tower | 121.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.3 | |
| Ground | 121.9 | Wilkes-Barre |
| Tower | 120.1 | Wilkes-Barre |
| Approach and departure · Terminal radar service · Departure procedure (FIMUB) arriving from headings 280 to 100 | 120.95 | Wilkes-Barre |
| Approach and departure · Terminal radar service · Departure procedure (MUDDR) arriving from headings 101 to 279 | 126.3 | Wilkes-Barre |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Wilkes-Barre |
| WILKES-BARRE and rco | 122.2 | Wilkes-Barre |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 570-456-5433.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure), bulk oxygen (low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental
- Notes
- landing fee charged
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport (6 nm southwest), Pocono Mountains Regional (20 nm southeast), Hazleton Regional (24 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Pennsylvania · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Existed prior to reqmt for airspace deter.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) 324 feet in length by 170 feet in width located 50 feet off der 04.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) 162 feet in length by 170 feet in width located 35 feet off der 22.
- Precipitous DROP-OFF each runway end.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 28 unlighted high terrain trees: 1155 feet above sea level.91 MI east aer 28; 1463 feet above sea level 1.49 MI EAST-SOUTHEAST aer 28; 1667 feet above sea level 2.25 MI east aer 28; 1920 feet above sea level 2.84 MI east aer 28.
- Unlighted tower 1130 feet above sea level (20 feet above ground level) 1.3 MI east aer 28; unlighted tower 1463 feet above sea level (20 feet above ground level) 1.7 MI east aer 28; unlighted tower 1652 feet above sea level (20 feet above ground level) 2.4 MI east aer 28.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 3,724 departures from AVP in those twelve months, carrying 221,278 passengers in 275,867 seats (80% filled), to 40 destinations (4 abroad) on 16 airlines.
All 40 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 24 |
| multi-engine | 6 |
| jets | 1 |
| helicopters | 2 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 42,268, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 5,380 |
| air taxi and commuter | 3,361 |
| general aviation, travelling | 16,628 |
| general aviation, local | 16,484 |
| military | 415 |
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA as the owner's town.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
9 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 9 for private pilot, 8 for commercial and instrument, 4 for airline transport pilot, 6 for flight instructor, 1 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 7 for airplanes, 4 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 7 aviation medical examiners, 2 engineering representatives.
- Bridget Vanscoy private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Valley Aviation · Forty-Fort, PA (10 nm) · (570) 905-5301 · vanscoy.bridget@gmail.com
- Erik Petschauer private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Honesdale, PA (24 nm) · (917) 620-0410 · ekpetschauer@gmail.com
- Daniel Arenson private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, type ratings, commercial pilot, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; helicopters · Lords Valley, PA (28 nm) · (503) 318-2343 · darenson39@yahoo.com
- Randy Marlin Rickert private pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; gliders · Lehighton, PA (32 nm) · (610) 704-2987 · lorran@ptd.net
- Christopher Calvert private pilot, commercial and instrument, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes · Milford, PA (38 nm) · (602) 738-4541 · flyusn94@yahoo.com
- Robert Armindo Miranda private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Orlandi Flight Center · Blairstown, NJ (40 nm) · (973) 670-6343 · bmirandadpe@gmail.com
- Aram Basmadjian private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Lehigh Valley Aviation Services · Allentown, PA (43 nm) · (760) 641-6214 · aramb@me.com
- John Albert Smith private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Allentown, PA (43 nm) · (610) 703-1842 · jaysmithdpe@gmail.com
All 18 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 13 since 1982, 4 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 13 since 1982 · 4 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Pennsylvania 1,834 since 1982 · 238 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Pennsylvania 118 landing places
- Pennsylvania 6,176 aircraft registered
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 1,485 flights in twelve months · GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express, Envoy Air
- Charlotte/Douglas International (CLT) 973 flights in twelve months · PSA Airlines Inc., American Airlines Inc.
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 775 flights in twelve months · CommuteAir LLC dba CommuteAir, Republic Airline
- Orlando International (MCO) 194 flights in twelve months · Breeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze
- Tampa International (TPA) 97 flights in twelve months · Breeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze
- Myrtle Beach International (MYR) 70 flights in twelve months · Breeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze
- Southwest Florida International (RSW) 62 flights in twelve months · Breeze Aviation Group DBA Breeze
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 11 flights in twelve months · GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express, Republic Airline
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AVP.json.
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 9, 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.