Braxton County
48I · Sutton, West Virginia · Braxton County · map
Braxton County is a public-use airport owned by CO Cmsn of Braxton, 3 miles east of Sutton, West Virginia, 1,276 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 3,995 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 48I
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- CO Cmsn of Braxton
- Elevation
- 1,276 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1937
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 3,995 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 02: threshold displaced 801 ft, 3,194 ft available for landing, trees 85 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 20: PAPI, two lights on the left, 3,815 ft available for landing, trees 113 ft high 844 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.15 | |
| 48I AWOS-3PT | 118.225 | |
| Parkersburg and center (remote transmitter) Low | 125.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 304-765-7805.
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Aircraft registered in Sutton from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Sutton, West Virginia: 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 West Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Beacon located on hill, 1/4 mile northwest of airport.
- Activate beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- 6 feet ditch crosses aer 02 0-116 feet from threshold.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 02 and 20; PAPI runway 20; medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
- 26 feet trees, 0-199, 216 feet L.
- 17 feet hill, 0-199 feet dstc, 247 feet R.
- Unusable beyond 6 degrees left and beyond 6 degrees right of centerline.
- Approach ratio 0:1 to displaced threshold, 80 feet trees, 0 feet dstc, 210 feet L. approach ratio 25:1 based on straight out ovr 53 feet trees, 1340 feet dstc, 0 feet B.
- Gate access 1-2-3-4-#.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.