Northumberland County
N79 · Shamokin, Pennsylvania · Northumberland County · map
Northumberland County is a public-use airport owned by Northumberland CO Apt Auth, 3 miles north of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, 881 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 3,297 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA N79
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Northumberland CO Apt Auth
- Elevation
- 881 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- weekends, on call; Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New York sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 3,297 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 17 ft high 330 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.25 | |
| N79 and aWOS-3 | 119.175 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 570-672-0389.
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Aircraft registered in Shamokin from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Shamokin, Pennsylvania: 1 piston single. 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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 runway end identifier lights runway 08 and 26; PAPI runway 08 and 26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - 121.8.
- Runway 08 trees/brush 165 L of centerline parl to runway from thld out to 200 feet.
- Runway 08 PAPI unusable beyond 7 degrees right of centerline.
- PAPI unusable beyond 8 degrees left and beyond 6 degrees right of runway centerline.
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.