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Catawba Valley Airport

VA10 · Blacksburg, Virginia · Montgomery County · map

Catawba Valley Airport is a private airport, 7 miles southwest of Blacksburg, Virginia, 1,720 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 1,751 feet of grass.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA VA10
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,720 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Cincinnati sectional
Magnetic variation: 7W
In the FAA's files since: September 1997

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
05/23	1,751 × 61 ft	Grass

Runway 05: right-hand traffic pattern
Runway 23: right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

Aircraft registered in Blacksburg from the FAA register

44 aircraft are registered to owners in Blacksburg, Virginia: 31 piston singles, 5 drones, 4 business jets, 2 turboprops, 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.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Precision AG LLC 3Hot Seat Aviation 3

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Virginia.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive BCB · 7 nm southwest Roanoke/Blacksburg Regional (Woodrum Field) ROA · 16 nm east New River Valley Airport PSK · 20 nm southwest Virginia Tech Vertiport Heliport 8VA2 · 7 nm southwest · private Montgomery Regional Hospital Heliport VG08 · 8 nm southwest · private May Heliport 13VG · 10 nm east · private Summit Airport 6VA4 · 11 nm east · private Radford Aap Heliport 28VA · 12 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provided daylight operations only and IFR operations not conducted.

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.