Garner Airport
3VA8 · Windsor, Virginia · Isle of Wight County · map
Garner Airport is a private airport owned by Tidewater Soaring Foundation, 5 miles northeast of Windsor, Virginia, 80 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 2,600 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3VA8
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Tidewater Soaring Foundation
- Elevation
- 80 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/S | 2,600 × 75 ft | Grass |
Aircraft registered in Windsor from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Windsor, Virginia: 5 piston singles, 5 gliders, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Suffolk Executive (11 nm south), Hampton Roads Executive (12 nm east), Franklin Regional (14 nm southwest), Newport News/Williamsburg International (19 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Suffolk Executive (11 nm south), Hampton Roads Executive (12 nm east), Franklin Regional (14 nm southwest), Wakefield Municipal (17 nm northwest).
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.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in Windsor, by their names on the register:
- Tidewater Soaring Society 5 aircraft Tidewater Soaring Society is a member-owned and operated soaring club affiliated with the SSA, located in Southeastern Virginia near Windsor.
- Tidewater Soaring Society INC 2 aircraft Tidewater Soaring Society is a member-owned and operated soaring club affiliated with the Soaring Society of America, located in Southeastern Virginia.
- Tide Water Soaring Society INC 1 aircraft Tidewater Soaring Society is a member-owned and operated soaring club affiliated with the SSA, located in Southeastern Virginia near Windsor.
Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Built prior to 1959.
- Glider operations on weekends. 123.3
- Weekends only.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Windsor 11 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 5 gliders, 1 drones
- Tidewater Soaring Society 4 aircraft in town
- Tidewater Soaring Society INC 2 aircraft in town
- Tidewater Soaring Society 5 aircraft · flying club
- Tidewater Soaring Society INC 2 aircraft · flying club
- Tide Water Soaring Society INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 5 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 230 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 5,986 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3VA8.json.
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 9, 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.