Fentress Nalf Airport
NFE · KNFE · Fentress, Virginia · Chesapeake County · map
Fentress Nalf Airport is a private airport owned by the US Navy in Fentress, Virginia, 16 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 8,004 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NFE · ICAO KNFE
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Navy
- Owner
- US Navy
- Elevation
- 16 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 8,004 × 175 ft | Asphalt | Low-intensity lights |
Radio frequencies
| Approach and departure | 123.9 |
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: Chesapeake Regional (9 nm west), Norfolk International (13 nm north), Hampton Roads Executive (16 nm west), Currituck County Regional (18 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Chesapeake Regional (9 nm west), Norfolk International (13 nm north), Hampton Roads Executive (16 nm west), Currituck County Regional (18 nm south).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway lights operated by crash crew during scheduled operations.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fentress from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Fentress, VA as the owner's town.
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:
- Teterboro School of Aeronautics INC 5 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 8 miles away
- Aviation Institute of Maintenance 2 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 8 miles away
- Air Pirates Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Virginia Beach, 8 miles away The Tidewater Flying Club is a non-profit flying club founded in 1967, based at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport (KPHF) in Newport News, Virginia.
- Horizon Flight Center LLC 8 aircraft · Chesapeake, 9 miles away Horizon Flight Center is a flight school in Chesapeake, Virginia, offering flight training for private pilot, instrument, commercial, and instructor certificates.
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
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 228 in the last ten years
- Teterboro School of Aeronautics INC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Aviation Institute of Maintenance 2 aircraft · flight school
- Air Pirates Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NFE.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 10, 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.