Front Royal-Warren County
FRR · KFRR · Front Royal, Virginia · Warren County · map
Front Royal-Warren County is a public-use airport owned by the County of Warren, 3 miles west of Front Royal, Virginia, 704 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 3,008 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 49 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 16,334 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KFRR · observed 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC), 18 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 60°F (16°C), dew point 44°F (7°C)
- Altimeter 30.08 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KFRR 062235Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 16/07 A3008 RMK AO2 T01560066
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FRR · ICAO KFRR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Warren
- Elevation
- 704 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,008 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: panels on the right, road 24 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 28: panels on the left, pole 42 ft high 1,382 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Approach and departure · Hyper and star · Prtzl and star arriving from headings 241 to 330 | 120.45 | |
| Frr and aWOS-3 | 121.85 | |
| Trstn and star | 126.75 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 540-635-5377.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 16,334, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Front Royal from the FAA register
28 aircraft are registered to owners in Front Royal, Virginia: 15 piston singles, 7 balloons, 5 gliders, 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 3 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
- In operation prior to 1959
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 10 right traffic for gyrocopters, ultralights and gliders.
- Runway 28 right traffic for gyrocopters, ultralights and gliders.
- Glider operations on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Deer and geese on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Prcht operations on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.