Potomac Airfield
VKX · KVKX · Friendly, Maryland · Prince Georges County · map
Potomac Airfield is a public-use airport in Friendly, Maryland, 118 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 2,665 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VKX · ICAO KVKX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 118 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1958
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 2,665 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 376 ft, trees 102 ft high 1,074 ft from the end
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 90 ft, trees 89 ft high 1,348 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Automated UNICOM; 3 clicks adzy and weather, 4 clicks radio check. |
| Approach and departure DC frz | 124.7 | |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) DC frz | 125.65 | |
| Tikee and star | 120.45 | |
| Irons and star | 126.4 |
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Aircraft registered in Friendly from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Friendly, MD as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 11 since 1982, 2 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
- Established prior to 1959.
- Rotating beacon located 1000 feet north of airport.
- Unlimited vehicle access to aircraft movement areas.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 operates sunset to sunrise; to activate otr times and activate PAPI runway 06 and 24 - the common traffic frequency.
- Automated UNICOM; 3 clicks adzy and weather, 4 clicks radio check.
- Runway 06 has +60 feet trees 240 feet R at threshold.
- Basic markings plus field carrier landing practice (fclp) markings.
- Runway 06 PAPI centerline use only.
- Approach ratio 20:1 at centerline to displaced threshold.
- Approach slope 15:1 at centerline to displaced threshold.
- Visitors please tune 122.85 for parking instructions and gnd services.
- Noise abatement procedures: avoid takeoff 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
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.