Slate Run Airport
55I · Spencer, West Virginia · Roane County · map
Slate Run Airport is a public-use airport owned by Roane County Flying Club, 3 miles southeast of Spencer, West Virginia, 1,001 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 1,730 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 55I
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Roane County Flying Club
- Elevation
- 1,001 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1976
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 1,730 × 30 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 16: trees 75 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees 15 ft high 330 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 |
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Aircraft registered in Spencer from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Spencer, West Virginia: 7 piston singles. 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 · 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
- Compatible traffic patterns when Roane county airport constd.
- Low-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 on required.
- Jon hildreth, pres.
- Runway 16/34 non-standard low-intensity runway lights; 34 threshold lights not cntrd; edge lights 25 feet from pvmnt edge, non-standard colors.
- 75 feet trees 0-200 feet dstc, 40 feet L.
- 20 feet trees, 0-100 feet dstc, 100 feet R/L.
- Nmrs trees in the approach.
- Marked elec transmission line air carriers approach to runway 16.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 16/24 trees and brush 40 feet from centerline.
- 100 feet DROP-OFF at each runway end.
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.