Luray Caverns Airport
LUA · KLUA · Luray, Virginia · Page County · map
Luray Caverns Airport is a public-use airport owned by Luray & Page CO. Airport Authority, 2 miles west of Luray, Virginia, 902 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 3,126 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KLUA · observed 3:35 pm EDT (19:35 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 70°F (21°C), dew point 36°F (2°C)
- Altimeter 30.13 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 KLUA 061935Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 21/02 A3013 RMK AO2
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 LUA · ICAO KLUA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Luray & Page CO. Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 902 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1971
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 3,126 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 28 ft high 940 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 9 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Lua and aWOS-3 | 118.275 | |
| Bucks Elbow Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 133.2 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 540-743-1148.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Luray from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Luray, Virginia: 15 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 · 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
- Right traffic for landing to southwest.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 04/22; medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- 10 feet road located 80 feet from end of runway, 230 feet left on approach.
- Runway 4 markings cvrd with algae.
- Runway 22 markings cvrd with algae.
- Deer and birds 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.