Swan Creek Airport
78A · Jonesville, North Carolina · Yadkin County · map
Swan Creek Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southwest of Jonesville, North Carolina, 1,137 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 2,600 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 78A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,137 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1942
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,600 × 125 ft | Grass, good | |
| 02/20 | 921 × 125 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 10: trees 65 ft high 74 ft from the end
- Runway 28: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 34 ft high 376 ft from the end
- Runway 02: trees 56 ft high 218 ft from the end
- Runway 20: trees 58 ft high 32 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Jonesville from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Jonesville, North Carolina: 3 piston singles, 1 glider. 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 · 3 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
- Existed prior to may 1959.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slp.
- Runway 20 has 11-60 feet trees 0-50 feet from threshold both sides of centerline which hide +3 feet fence 20 feet from threshold 0 feet left and right of centerline.
- No LINE-OF-SIGHT between runway ends.
- Runway 10 slps uphill.
- Farm equip on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Tower in the vicinity of runway 28 left base.
- 4 feet fence along left edge runway 10.
- 10 feet wide gravel driveway crosses runway 02/20.
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.