Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County
PTB · KPTB · Petersburg, Virginia · Dinwiddie County · map
Tri Cities Exec/Dinwiddie County is a public-use airport, 5 miles southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, 193 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 5,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PTB · ICAO KPTB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 193 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- October to March, Monday to Sunday, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm; ARP to SEPT, Monday to Sunday, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1976
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,002 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: localizer with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), tree 55 ft high 1,277 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.75 | |
| Ptb and aWOS-3 | 133.325 | |
| Apt Remark 100 With Gco Freq | 135.075 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 804-861-5551.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Petersburg from the FAA register
35 aircraft are registered to owners in Petersburg, Virginia: 20 turboprops, 8 business jets, 4 piston twins, 3 piston singles. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Prior to 1959.
- Concrete pads on main apron available for helicopter parking. Contact UNICOM for terminal helicopter parking.
- Activate odals runway 05; runway end identifier lights runway 23; PAPI runways 05 and 23; and medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service fueling available after hours.
- Helicopters approach parl to runway 05/23 and transition perpendicular to runway 05/23 to helipads on northeast corner of apron.
- Ultralight act on and in the vicinity of airport.
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 5, 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.