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Summit Airport

6VA4 · Salem, Virginia · Roanoke County · map

Summit Airport is a private airport owned by Summit Helicopters INC. in Salem, Virginia, 1,030 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 1,400 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 6VA4
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: Summit Helicopters INC.
Elevation: 1,030 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Cincinnati sectional
Magnetic variation: 6W

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
12/30	1,400 × 60 ft	Grass, good

Runway 12: power line 60 ft high 400 ft from the end
Runway 30: trees 60 ft high 400 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Salem from the FAA register

53 aircraft are registered to owners in Salem, Virginia: 26 piston singles, 17 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins. 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:

Summit Helicopters INC 15 Mountain Aviation LLC 7Kane Aviation LLC 3Summit Sales & Leasing INC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) ROA · 5 nm northeast Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive BCB · 17 nm west Smith Mountain Lake Airport W91 · 25 nm southeast Lewis Gale Clinic INC Heliport 1VA2 · 2 nm southeast · private Lewis Gale Medical Center Heliport 39VA · 2 nm southeast · private May Heliport 13VG · 2 nm northwest · private Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Heliport VG62 · 6 nm east · private Carilion Patient Transportation Services Heliport VG47 · 6 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

E111: provided operations are conducted in VFR daylight conditions. Traffic pattern does not exceed 800 feet.

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.