New Market Airport
8W2 · New Market, Virginia · Shenandoah County · map
New Market Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles west of New Market, Virginia, 963 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 2,920 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 8W2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 963 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 825 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- M to F, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 2,920 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 06: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 24: threshold displaced 918 ft, road 15 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| 8W2 AWOS-3 | 118.175 | |
| Bucks Elbow Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 133.2 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 540-740-3801.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in New Market from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in New Market, Virginia: 12 piston singles, 3 drones, 2 piston twins. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Bln rpr stn; aircraft rprs available, but not FULL-TIME.
- RT traffic is used when landing on runway 6.
- Deer and birds on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Pwr plant rprs available, but not FULL-TIME.
- Unatndd thanksgiving, christmas, and New YEAR'S day.
- 24 hour credit card service
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; thld lights one fixture each side. Runway 06 lighted thld relocated 100 feet and runway 24 lighted thld relocated 930 feet for night operations; 2020 feet runway 06/24 lighted at night. No runway end lights runway 24.
- Runway 24, 5 feet fence 110 feet from thld 0B, 15 feet road 115 feet from thld 0B, pole 90 feet from threshold 100 feet R, 23 feet power line 114 feet from thld 117 feet L.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds 45 degrees slp; clnc slp 34:1 to dthr.
- Ridge and trees perpindicular to runway 06; 225 feet left of centerline and approximately 1300 feet from thld.
- Hot air balloons weekends early morning and late afternoon.
- Approximately 1000 feet north of runway, 200 feet ridge/trees parallel runway.
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.