Lower Creek Airport
NC27 · Lenoir, North Carolina · Caldwell County · map
Lower Creek Airport is a private airport owned by Lenoir Aviation Club, INC, 3 miles northeast of Lenoir, North Carolina, 1,195 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NC27
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Lenoir Aviation Club, INC
- Elevation
- 1,195 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1959
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,200 × 150 ft | Grass |
- Runway 23: right-hand traffic pattern, power line 30 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Foothills Regional (10 nm southwest), Hickory Regional (13 nm south), Avery County/Morrison Field (25 nm west), Wilkes County (25 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Foothills Regional (10 nm southwest), Hickory Regional (13 nm south), Avery County/Morrison Field (25 nm west), Wilkes County (25 nm northeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in North Carolina · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Airport existed since 6/59.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Lenoir from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Lenoir, North Carolina: 40 piston singles, 3 drones, 2 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 turboprop. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Sky View Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · Lenoir, 3 miles away Sky View Aviation is a flight school based in Hickory, North Carolina, offering pilot training from Hickory Regional Airport and Foothills Regional Airport in Morganton/Lenoir.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Lenoir 48 aircraft · 40 piston singles, 3 drones, 2 piston twins
- Sky View Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Lucky7 Air LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Altitude Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Sky View Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 6 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,762 since 1982 · 304 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in North Carolina 106 landing places
- North Carolina 7,130 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NC27.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 12, 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.