Pilots Ridge Airport
03NC · Carolina Beach, North Carolina · New Hanover County · map
Pilots Ridge Airport is a private airport owned by Pilots Ridge Homeowners Assn, 3 miles north of Carolina Beach, North Carolina, 35 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,000 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 03NC
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Pilots Ridge Homeowners Assn
- Elevation
- 35 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1983
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,000 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 09: trees 30 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 27: trees 50 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Aircraft registered in Carolina Beach from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Carolina Beach, North Carolina: 8 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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.
- Line of 25 feet trees south of runway 100 feet from centerline.
- 250 feet overrun - soft sand.
- Runway 09/27 non-standard low-intensity runway lights.
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.