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
- 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
- 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
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, 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.