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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Wilmington International (10 nm north), Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field (13 nm southwest), Wallace-Pender Airport (37 nm north), Columbus County Regional (42 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Wilmington International (10 nm north), Cape Fear Regional Jetport/Howie Franklin Field (13 nm southwest), Odell Williamson Municipal (29 nm southwest), Wallace-Pender Airport (37 nm north).
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 North Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Carolina Beach 10 aircraft · 8 piston singles, 1 piston twins, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,759 since 1982 · 303 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Carolina 106 landing places
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/03NC.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.