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Earth Airport

VG39 · Cape Charles, Virginia · Northampton County · map

Earth Airport is a private airport, 3 miles south of Cape Charles, Virginia, 9 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,000 feet of grass.

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

The airport

Codes
FAA VG39
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
9 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
On the chart
Washington sectional
Magnetic variation
11W
In the FAA's files since
February 2002

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1129N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
11/292,000 × 60 ftGrass
  • Runway 11: trees 50 ft high 400 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

  • Prvvd VFR; no IFR operations; stop sign at runway end for vehicular traffic; clear 20:1 approach/departure slope.

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.