Mountain Air Airport
2NC0 · Burnsville, North Carolina · Yancey County · map
Mountain Air Airport is a private airport owned by Mountain Air Airport Facility INC, 6 miles southwest of Burnsville, North Carolina, 4,432 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,900 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 2NC0
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Mountain Air Airport Facility INC
- Elevation
- 4,432 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to October, every day, daylight hours
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1990
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 2,900 × 50 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 32: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | · (UNICOM) automated weather 3-MIC clicks RW32 4-MIC clicks RW14 |
Aircraft registered in Burnsville from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Burnsville, North Carolina: 12 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 glider, 1 drone, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 11 since 1982, 2 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
- Provided VFR, private use only.
- High terrain all quadrants, runway 32 uphill grade, runway 14 preferred for takeoff
- No winter maintenance or snow removal
- (UNICOM) automated weather 3-MIC clicks RW32 4-MIC clicks RW14
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport
- VFR civil day light operations only
- (annual general local operations) caution: mountainous terrain all quadrants.
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.