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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1988
Runway
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
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- engine: major repairs
- Notes
- landing fee charged
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (10 nm south), Ingalls Field (28 nm north), Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive (29 nm southwest), Greenbrier Valley Airport (31 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) (10 nm south), Smith Mountain Lake Airport (28 nm southeast), Ingalls Field (28 nm north), Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive (29 nm southwest).
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 Virginia · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR use only.
- Trees 15 feet high at end of runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Virginia.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Blue Ridge Soaring Society 8 aircraft · New Castle, 10 miles away Blue Ridge Soaring Society is a 501(c)(3) flying club located in New Castle, Virginia that supports the sport of soaring through training, public outreach, and racing.
- Acorn Flying Club of Roanoke LLC 1 aircraft · Roanoke, 12 miles away
- Roanoke Valley Flying Club 1 aircraft · Roanoke, 12 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Fincastle 12 aircraft · 11 piston singles, 1 piston twins
- Blue Ridge Soaring Society 8 aircraft · flying club
- Acorn Flying Club of Roanoke LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Roanoke Valley Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 228 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Virginia 64 landing places
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/VA04.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 November 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.