Laurinburg/Maxton Airport
MEB · KMEB · Maxton, North Carolina · Scotland County · map
Laurinburg/Maxton Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Laurinburg & Maxton, 3 miles north of Maxton, North Carolina, 216 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 05/23, is 6,503 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive) and about 33 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 54,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KMEB · observed 6:52 pm EDT (22:52 UTC), 38 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east-northeast (060°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 68°F (20°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 30.07 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 KMEB 062252Z AUTO 06005KT 10SM CLR 20/13 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP180 T02000128
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 MEB · ICAO KMEB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Laurinburg & Maxton
- Elevation
- 216 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm; Saturday to Sunday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,503 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 3,536 × 75 ft | Concrete, fair |
- Runway 05: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 187 ft, road 20 ft high 534 ft from the end
- Runway 13: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 44 ft high 1,721 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 45 ft high 749 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 | |
| UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 127.8 | |
| Meb and automated weather (ASOS) | 134.125 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 910-844-5338.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 54,000, 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 Maxton from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Maxton, North Carolina: 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 05; PAPI runway 05 and 23; high-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- 24 hour self service with credit card.
- 2750 feet concrete stopway on southeast end.
- Military aircraft frqly oper from closed ptn of runway 13/31 and closed runway 18/36.
- Hvy paja at south end of closed runway 18/36 and south side runway 13/31.
- Farming eqpt and military operations on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 13/31 daylight use only.
- No LN of sight between runway ends.
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.