Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station (Cunningham Field)
NKT · KNKT · Cherry Point, North Carolina · Pamlico County · map
Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station (Cunningham Field) is a private airport owned by the US Navy, 2 miles northeast of Cherry Point, North Carolina, 29 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 14L/32R, is 8,978 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, JP-5).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NKT · ICAO KNKT
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Navy
- Owner
- US Navy
- Elevation
- 29 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with radar approach control · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, JP-5; the services card below
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1943
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14L/32R | 8,978 × 200 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
| 05L/23R | 8,489 × 196 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
| 14R/32L | 8,397 × 200 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
| 05R/23L | 8,189 × 200 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 14L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 05L: threshold displaced 935 ft, 7,554 ft available for landing
- Runway 23R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 7,554 ft available for landing
- Runway 14R: threshold displaced 848 ft, 7,549 ft available for landing
- Runway 32L: PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-1), 7,549 ft available for landing
- Runway 05R: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 127.475 | Cherry Point |
| Clearance delivery When ewn tower closed | 120.525 | New Bern |
| Clearance delivery | 125.65 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.95 | Cherry Point |
| Ground | 128.625 | Cherry Point |
| Tower | 121.3 | Cherry Point |
| Approach and departure (west) | 119.35 | Cherry Point |
| Approach and departure East above 3000 feet | 119.75 | Cherry Point |
| Approach and departure · Departure (H) | 124.1 | Cherry Point |
| Approach and departure | 124.725 | |
| Approach and departure East 3000 feet and below | 132.575 | Cherry Point |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Cherry Point |
| Base and operations | 126.2 | Cherry Point |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, JP-5
- Oxygen
- bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Coastal Carolina Regional (13 nm northwest), Michael J Smith Field (15 nm southeast), Albert J Ellis Airport (36 nm west).
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
- Available only during hours of operation.
- Pattern altitude: 1000 feet above ground level, ovhd pattern altitude 1500 feet above ground level.
- Hook E28(B) (1500 feet)
- Hook E28(B) (1500 feet)
- Hook E28(B) (2438 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (1500 feet)
- Fuel: hot pit rfl available.
- Aircraft structural DE-ICING available.
- Light: portable LGT-MOBILE flood light.
- A-GEAR: all E-28(B) in raised posn except on landing runway. Rqr 15 minimum PN.
- Jasu: 2 working days PN rqr. 2(GTC-85) 1(NCPP-105)
- Fluid: SP presair hpox lox DE-ICE.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Cherry Point from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Cherry Point, NC as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 since 1982, 0 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
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 8 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in North Carolina 1,759 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 7,120 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NKT.json.
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 27, 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.