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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card 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. |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Farmville Regional (13 nm southeast), Lynchburg Rgnl/Preston Glenn Field (32 nm southwest), Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (36 nm north), Louisa County/Freeman Field (40 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Farmville Regional (13 nm southeast), Falwell Airport (27 nm west), Brookneal/Campbell County (32 nm southwest), Crewe Municipal (32 nm southeast).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Buckingham 3 aircraft · 3 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 228 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,975 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/8VA1.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 3, 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.