Fincastle Airport
VA83 · Fincastle, Virginia · Botetourt County · map
Fincastle Airport is a private airport, 2 miles north of Fincastle, Virginia, 1,140 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 3,039 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VA83
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,140 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
- April 1993
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 3,039 × 150 ft | Grass |
- Runway 29: hills 150 ft high 2,000 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
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
- VFR use; thresholds displaced to provide 20:1 approach slope.
- Personal use.
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.