Holly Ridge/Topsail Island Airport
NR32 · Holly Ridge, North Carolina · Onslow County · map
Holly Ridge/Topsail Island Airport is a private airport owned by New Hannover Airport LLC, 1 mile southeast of Holly Ridge, North Carolina, 49 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,591 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 NR32
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- New Hannover Airport LLC
- Elevation
- 49 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,591 × 88 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 14: threshold displaced 981 ft, pline on the approach
- Runway 32: threshold displaced 601 ft, power line 35 ft high 74 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Albert J Ellis Airport (21 nm north), Wilmington International (23 nm southwest), Wallace-Pender Airport (27 nm northwest), Duplin County (38 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Albert J Ellis Airport (21 nm north), Wilmington International (23 nm southwest), Wallace-Pender Airport (27 nm northwest), Duplin County (38 nm northwest).
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.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- No airfield light; no night operations.
- Runway 14 approach ratio 15:1 to displaced threshold due to 60 feet unmkd power line.
- Runway 32 approach slope 17:1 to displaced threshold due to 38 feet marked power line; runway 32 has a road 135 feet from end of runway.
- Displaced threshold indicated by yellow cones.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Holly Ridge from the FAA register
7 aircraft are registered to owners in Holly Ridge, North Carolina: 5 piston singles, 2 piston twins. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in North Carolina.
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 Holly Ridge 7 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 2 piston twins
- 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/NR32.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.
