Starbase Airport
VG09 · Cape Charles, Virginia · Northampton County · map
Starbase Airport is a private airport owned by Bayview CORP, 4 miles southeast of Cape Charles, Virginia, 20 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,000 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 VG09
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Bayview CORP
- Elevation
- 20 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1998
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,000 × 80 ft | Grass, good | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: power lines 30 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 27: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,000 ft, trees 30 ft high 500 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Norfolk International (22 nm southwest), Newport News/Williamsburg International (25 nm west), Accomack County (27 nm northeast), Hampton Roads Executive (35 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Norfolk International (22 nm southwest), Newport News/Williamsburg International (25 nm west), Accomack County (27 nm northeast), Hummel Field (32 nm northwest).
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 only; 20:1 approach ratio over obstruction; letter of agreement with page SCOTT'S airport.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - 122.9.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Cape Charles from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Cape Charles, Virginia: 3 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Cape Charles 4 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Accidents and incidents in Virginia 1,361 since 1982 · 229 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/VG09.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 October 30, 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.