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Barrows Airport

VA04 · Fincastle, Virginia · Botetourt County · map

Barrows Airport is a private airport, 2 miles west of Fincastle, Virginia, 1,100 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,100 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA VA04
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,100 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: every day, dawn to dusk
Repairs: engine: major repairs
Notes: landing fee
On the chart: Cincinnati sectional
Magnetic variation: 6W
In the FAA's files since: November 1988

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
08/26	2,100 × 40 ft	Grass

Runway 08: hill 15 ft high 20 ft from the end
Runway 26: trees 50 ft high 20 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Fincastle from the FAA register

12 aircraft are registered to owners in Fincastle, Virginia: 11 piston singles, 1 piston twin. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

2008-08-22NYC08CA294 · Sacrey W Michael Zenair Ch N404BB · accident · no injuries

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

Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) ROA · 10 nm south Smith Mountain Lake Airport W91 · 28 nm southeast Ingalls Field HSP · 28 nm north Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive BCB · 29 nm southwest Fincastle Airport VA83 · 4 nm northeast · private New Castle International VA85 · 8 nm west · private Springwood Airstrip 08VA · 9 nm northeast · private Perkey Airport 79VG · 12 nm northeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

VFR use only.
Trees 15 feet high at end of runway.

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.