Phillip R Bunn Airport
51NC · Zebulon, North Carolina · Wake County · map
Phillip R Bunn Airport is a private airport, 2 miles northwest of Zebulon, North Carolina, 330 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 2,300 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 51NC
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 330 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 2000
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,300 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 28: trees 50 ft high 300 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Zebulon from the FAA register
39 aircraft are registered to owners in Zebulon, North Carolina: 22 piston singles, 10 gliders, 3 balloons, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 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, pvt use.
- Please use the name "philip Bunn" on the sectional map. Using just "Bunn" is confusing because there is a nearby town called Bunn.
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.