Springwood Airstrip
08VA · Buchanan, Virginia · Botetourt County · map
Springwood Airstrip is a private gliderport, 5 miles northwest of Buchanan, Virginia, 1,026 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 1,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The gliderport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 08VA
- Kind
- Gliderport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,026 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1983
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 1,200 × 50 ft | Grass |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this gliderport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (17 nm southwest), Ingalls Field (24 nm north), Lynchburg Rgnl/Preston Glenn Field (30 nm southeast), Greenbrier Valley Airport (36 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (17 nm southwest), Ingalls Field (24 nm north), Smith Mountain Lake Airport (28 nm south), Lynchburg Rgnl/Preston Glenn Field (30 nm southeast).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Airspace determination pending.
- Departure will be on runway 09; approach and landing on runway 27.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Buchanan from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Buchanan, Virginia: 1 glider. Not every one of them is based at this gliderport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this gliderport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- South River Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Natural Bridge, 13 miles away
Companies in the same town as this gliderport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this gliderport
Accidents and incidents at or near this gliderport 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 gliderport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Buchanan 1 aircraft · 1 gliders
- South River Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this gliderport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 229 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/08VA.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 30, 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.