Montgomery County
43A · Star, North Carolina · Montgomery County · map
Montgomery County is a public-use airport owned by Montgomery County in Star, North Carolina, 632 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 4,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,800 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 43A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Montgomery County
- Elevation
- 632 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 4,002 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 43 ft high 1,453 ft from the end
- Runway 21: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 458 ft, pole 26 ft high 456 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 127.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,800, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Star from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Star, North Carolina: 1 piston twin, 1 piston single. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR operations only.
- Ctn: deer on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Activate PAPI runway 03 and 21; medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 - the common traffic frequency.
- Avgas 100LL 24 hour self service with credit card.
- Approach ratio 24:1 to dthr.
- Unmarked 40 feet power line 350-750 feet from threshold runway 21 across and L of centerline.
- 20-25 feet depression 180 feet south of runway 03 threshold on centerline.
- Runway 03 has uphill grade.
- 35-40 feet DROP-OFF 80 feet west of runway 03 centerline; 30 feet DROP-OFF 300 feet from runway 21 threshold on centerline; 30 feet DROP-OFF 80 feet right of runway 21 centerline.
- Runway 21 has a parallel gravel driveway 130 feet right of centerline.
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.