Hyde County
7W6 · Engelhard, North Carolina · Hyde County · map
Hyde County is a public-use airport owned by Hyde County, 7 miles north of Engelhard, North Carolina, 7 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 5,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 7W6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hyde County
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1981
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 5,002 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 29: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 37 ft high 1,415 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.75 | |
| 7W6 AWOS-3P | 119.275 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 252-925-1136.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Engelhard from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Engelhard, North Carolina: 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 North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate PAPI runway 11 and 29; medium-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self serve with credit card.
- R5314 5 MI North of airport and R5313 5 MI east have hvy concentrations of military aircraft WI 1000 feet above ground level and in excess of 500 kts. Mnvrng for landing and aft takeoff should rmn over land east of airport.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Geese nesting North side of runway at upper and middle ponds.
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.