Summersville Airport
SXL · KSXL · Summersville, West Virginia · Nicholas County · map
Summersville Airport is a public-use airport owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers., 3 miles south of Summersville, West Virginia, 1,820 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 3,015 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SXL · ICAO KSXL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Elevation
- 1,820 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 3,015 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: trees 50 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 65 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.2 |
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Aircraft registered in Summersville from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Summersville, West Virginia: 5 piston singles, 4 helicopters. 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 West Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Lighthouse 2 MI southeast. May be mistaken for rtg beacon.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 22 out of service indfly.
- Airport phys addr. 2506 airport road. Summersville, WV 26651.
- SELF-SERVE.
- 30 feet trees; up to 120 feet dstc, approx 105 to 125 feet right.
- 70 feet trees, 0 feet dstc 200 feet L.
- Runway end identifier lightss out of service indefinitely.
- Runway end identifier lightss out of service indefinitely.
- Runway 04 50 feet DROP-OFF 110 feet from threshold.
- Runway 22 30 feet DROP-OFF 110 feet from threshold.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.