Dirt Dobber'S Grass Strip
NC97 · Shelby, North Carolina · Cleveland County · map
Dirt Dobber'S Grass Strip is a private airport, 5 miles north of Shelby, North Carolina, 930 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 1,600 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 NC97
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 930 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2005
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 1,600 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 08: trees 40 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
- Runway 26: power line 30 ft high 600 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Shelby-Cleveland County Regional (8 nm southwest), Lincoln County Regional (19 nm east), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (20 nm west), Gastonia Municipal (21 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Shelby-Cleveland County Regional (8 nm southwest), Lincoln County Regional (19 nm east), Rutherford County/Marchman Field (20 nm west), Gastonia Municipal (21 nm southeast).
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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Shelby from the FAA register
49 aircraft are registered to owners in Shelby, North Carolina: 40 piston singles, 4 balloons, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin. 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:
- 3580 Shelby Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Shelby, 9 miles away
Repair stations in Shelby:
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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Shelby 49 aircraft · 40 piston singles, 4 balloons, 2 helicopters
- Compass Aviation INC 9 aircraft in town
- Plane Pro Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in town
- Compass Aviation Maintenance LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Pleasant City Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- 3580 Shelby Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Curtiss-Wright · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,762 since 1982 · 305 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 7,117 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NC97.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 October 30, 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.