# Dare County Regional Airport (MEO / KMQI)

**Dare County Regional Airport** (IATA: MEO, ICAO: KMQI) is a small airport in Manteo, North Carolina, United States. It opened in Sep 1943. It has 2 runways; the longest is 4,306 ft (1,313 m).

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmqi

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MEO / KMQI
- FAA: MQI
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Manteo, North Carolina, United States
- Opened: Sep 1943
- Elevation: 13 ft / 4 m
- Coordinates: 35.9188, -75.6957
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 4,306 ft / 1,313 m
- Instrument procedures: 3 approaches
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/New_York
- Website: https://www.darenc.gov/departments/airport
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_County_Regional_Airport (7 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1708282
- Weather station: KMQI
- Ident: KMQI

## Timeline

- Sep 1943: Dare County Regional Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 05/23 | 4,306 ft / 1,313 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 038° / 218° | yes |
| 17/35 | 3,303 ft / 1,007 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 158° / 338° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/06372AD.PDF

## Routes

3 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [EDE](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kede.md) Northeastern Regional Airport · United States · 49 mi / 79 km · UPS Airlines
- [ORF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/korf.md) Norfolk International Airport · United States · 73 mi / 118 km · UPS Airlines, FedEx Express
- [RDU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/krdu.md) Raleigh-Durham International Airport · United States · 173 mi / 279 km · UPS Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from MEO, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (2)

- 5X [UPS Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ups-airlines) · 3
- FX [FedEx Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fedex-express) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 4,306 ft / 1,313 m | =8,559 of 29,858 | =3,301 in North America | =2,724 in US |
| Elevation | 13 ft / 4 m | =42,223 of 43,403 | =19,014 in North America | =15,520 in US |
| Age | Opened 1943 | =2,016 of 15,079 | =1,078 in North America | =1,034 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A/D | NORFOLK APP/DEP | 124.725 |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 128.275 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [FFA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kffa.md) First Flight Airport · 7.0 mi / 11 km
- [NC36](https://dromopedia.com/airports/us-8633.md) Cotton Gin Airport · 22 mi / 36 km
- [DUF](https://dromopedia.com/airports/7nc2.md) Pine Island Airport · 24 mi / 38 km
- [87NR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/87nr.md) Columbia Airstrip · 28 mi / 46 km
- [7W6](https://dromopedia.com/airports/k7w6.md) Hyde County Airport · 29 mi / 46 km
- [1NC3](https://dromopedia.com/airports/1nc3.md) Fletcher's Airport · 31 mi / 50 km

## Sources

- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Dare County Regional Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dare_County_Regional_Airport&oldid=1364481959), revision of 16 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmqi/data