Craft Airport
86NC · Hertford, North Carolina · Washington County · map
Craft Airport is a private airport, 5 miles north of Hertford, North Carolina, 14 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04R/22L, is 2,900 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 86NC
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 14 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 2002
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04R/22L | 2,900 × 100 ft | Grass | |
| 04L/22R | 2,600 × 24 ft | Concrete |
- Runway 22L: threshold displaced 825 ft, power line 50 ft high 175 ft from the end
- Runway 22R: threshold displaced 825 ft, power line 50 ft high 175 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Hertford from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Hertford, North Carolina: 6 piston singles, 1 business jet. 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 · 2 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
- Provided VFR operations, private use, and landing area is limited to category B aircraft so as to not conflict with the traffic pattern at dillard airport, winfall, NC.
- Intensive agriculture operations in the vicinity of airport.
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.