Tarboro-Edgecombe Airport
ETC · KETC · Tarboro, North Carolina · Edgecombe County · map
Tarboro-Edgecombe Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles north of Tarboro, North Carolina, 53 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,999 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ETC · ICAO KETC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 53 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1961
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,999 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 9 ft high 212 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 24 ft high 542 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Etc and aWOS-3P | 119.575 | |
| New Bern Center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.85 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 252-641-1640.
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 Tarboro from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Tarboro, North Carolina: 3 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 drone. 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 North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lightss runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service 100LL available 24 hours with credit card.
- 15 feet road 162 feet from end both sides centerline; 3 feet fence 126 feet from end both sides centerline.
- Runway 09 approach slp 14:1 due to 15 feet road 385 feet from the displaced thld both sides of centerline.
- 500 feet low level rte 3 MI northeast of airport - be alert for military aircraft in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 27 safety area has surface variations and depressions and a 20 feet DROP-OFF 100 feet from both sides.
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.