Moore County
SOP · KSOP · Pinehurst/Southern Pines, North Carolina · Moore County · map
Moore County is a public-use airport owned by the County of Moore, 3 miles north of Pinehurst/Southern Pines, North Carolina, 459 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 6,503 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KSOP · observed 5:56 pm EDT (21:56 UTC), 10 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northeast (030°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 71°F (22°C), dew point 50°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 30.08 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSOP 062156Z AUTO 03005KT 10SM CLR 22/10 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP191 T02170100 PNO $
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SOP · ICAO KSOP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Moore
- Elevation
- 459 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1937
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 6,503 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 600 ft, 5,502 ft available for landing, trees 67 ft high 2,179 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 400 ft, 5,722 ft available for landing, trees 64 ft high 1,143 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Clearance delivery | 127.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 127.8 | |
| Sop and aWOS-3PT | 127.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 910-692-4287.
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 Pinehurst/Southern Pines from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Pinehurst/Southern Pines, NC as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 since 1982, 1 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 05; runway end identifier lights runway 23; high-intensity runway lights runway 05/23; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 05 and 23 opers continuously.
- Unusable beyond 8 degrees left of centerline.
- Approach ratio 33:1 at dthr 74 feet trees.
- Approach ratio 19:1 at dthr 67 feet trees.
- Bird actvty on and in the vicinity of airport APR-OCT.
- Maintenance available.
- Flight training available.
- Fixed wing aircraft operations not authorized from any grass/grass surface.
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.