Virginia Beach Airport
42VA · Virginia Beach, Virginia · Virginia Beach County · map
Virginia Beach Airport is a private airport owned by Virginia Beach Arpt, LLC, 4 miles southeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, 15 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 4,845 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 42VA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Virginia Beach Arpt, LLC
- Elevation
- 15 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1993
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 4,845 × 190 ft | Grass, good |
Aircraft registered in Virginia Beach from the FAA register
326 aircraft are registered to owners in Virginia Beach, Virginia: 231 piston singles, 44 piston twins, 17 business jets, 11 turboprops, 11 helicopters. 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 Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only.
- Extension 500.
- Runway marked with white pylons.
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.