W N C Air Museum Airport
8NC9 · Hendersonville, North Carolina · Henderson County · map
W N C Air Museum Airport is a private airport owned by Western North Carolina Air Museum,, 1 mile southeast of Hendersonville, North Carolina, 2,083 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,400 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8NC9
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Western North Carolina Air Museum,
- Elevation
- 2,083 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1999
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 2,400 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 32: trees 75 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 123.0 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: minor repairs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Asheville Regional (9 nm northwest), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (25 nm east), Greenville Spartanburg International (27 nm southeast), Greenville Downtown Airport (28 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Asheville Regional (9 nm northwest), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (25 nm east), Greenville Spartanburg International (27 nm southeast), Greenville Downtown Airport (28 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in North Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR, day use only. Pvt use. Loa with Hendersonville airport. Clear 20:1 approach on all runways.
- Hendersonville airport located 500 feet east of airport. Crossovers available, own risk.
- Museum open Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
- The western North Carolina Air Museum, inc
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Hendersonville from the FAA register
54 aircraft are registered to owners in Hendersonville, North Carolina: 47 piston singles, 2 gliders, 2 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 helicopter. 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:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Mountain Flyers INC 4 aircraft · Hendersonville Mountain Flyers Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based at Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina.
- University of North Carolina At Asheville 6 aircraft · Asheville, 11 miles away
- Pf Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Asheville, 11 miles away
- Tech Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Asheville, 11 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Hendersonville 54 aircraft · 47 piston singles, 2 gliders, 2 drones
- Western North Carolina Air Museum 15 aircraft in town
- Aerolina INC 5 aircraft in town
- Mountain Flyers INC 3 aircraft in town
- Mountain Flyers INC 4 aircraft · flight school
- University of North Carolina At Asheville 6 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Pf Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 3 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,762 since 1982 · 305 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Carolina 106 landing places
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/8NC9.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 6, 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.