Airport type Public 4R/22L 5,500 Elevation 186 m | Elevation AMSL 609 ft / 186 m 5,500 1,676 Phone +1 704-982-9013 | |
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Serves Albemarle, North Carolina Website StanlyCountyAirport.com Address 43222 Lowder Aviation Pkwy, New London, NC 28127, USA Similar Rowan County Airport (R, Stanly Community College, Stanly County Detention, Fly High Lexington County Ai, The Stanly News & Press | ||
Stanly county airport
Stanly County Airport (ICAO: KVUJ, FAA LID: VUJ) is a county owned, joint civil-military, public use airport in Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. It is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northeast of the central business district of Albemarle, North Carolina. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned VUJ by the FAA but has no assignment from the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KVUJ.
Stanly County Air National Guard Station
Stanly County Airport serves as a regional training site for the North Carolina Air National Guard. The 235th Air Traffic Control Squadron (235 ATCS) operates the control tower at the airport. Also located at the airport's Air National Guard Station are the 118th Air Support Operations Squadron (118 ASOS), 156th Weather Flight (156 WF) and the 263d Combat Communications Squadron (263 CCS). Runway 4R/22L is frequently used as an assault strip by the C-130s of the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing (145 AW) based in Charlotte.
Facilities and aircraft
Stanly County Airport covers an area of 800 acres (324 ha) at an elevation of 609 feet (186 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces:4R/22L is 5,500 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m) and 4L/22R is 3,500 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).
For the 12-month period ending July 22, 2011, the airport had 22,042 aircraft operations, an average of 60 per day: 77% general aviation and 23% military. At that time there were 18 aircraft based at this airport: 89% single-engine and 11% multi-engine.