Slate River Airpark
8VA1 · Buckingham, Virginia · Buckingham County · map
Slate River Airpark is a private airport, 2 miles wsw of Buckingham, Virginia, 470 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,600 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8VA1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 470 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- June 2017
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,600 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: road 15 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 31: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 200 ft high 650 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.3 | · Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. |
Aircraft registered in Buckingham from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Buckingham, Virginia: 3 piston singles. 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 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- All operations conducted VFR; ltd to pvt use; common frequency to be used to mnt all aircraft; right traffic to runway 31.
- Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency.
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.