Cartersville Airport
VPC · KVPC · Cartersville, Georgia · Bartow County · map
Cartersville Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cartersville, 3 miles southwest of Cartersville, Georgia, 759 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 5,760 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KVPC · observed 3:35 pm EDT (19:35 UTC), 20 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 79°F (26°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter 30.04 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KVPC 061935Z AUTO VRB05KT 10SM CLR 26/13 A3004 RMK AO2
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VPC · ICAO KVPC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cartersville
- Elevation
- 759 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,041 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1969
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,760 × 100 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 740 ft, trees 93 ft high 1,324 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 41 ft high 476 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.0 | |
| Bokrt and star | 119.8 | |
| Vpc and aWOS-3PT | 120.525 | |
| Wrgnz and star | 128.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 770-607-7782.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Cartersville from the FAA register
64 aircraft are registered to owners in Cartersville, Georgia: 36 piston singles, 16 business jets, 8 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Georgia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 1 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
- Runway end identifier lights runway 19; PAPI runway 01 and 19; high-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 oper DUSK-2200. Aft 2200 activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude for light aircraft 1041 feet above ground level, pattern altitude for jet and turboprop aircraft 1541 feet above ground level, pattern altitude for ultralight aircraft 541 feet above ground level.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) with 159 feet setback 263 feet in length by 117 feet in width located at the der 01.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) with 309 feet setback 251 feet in length by 117 feet in width located at the der 19.
- Approach slp is 17:1 to displaced thld, 130 feet trees 2275 feet out and 403 feet left.
- Ultralight/lsa act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Ultralight/lsa traffic pattern inside normal pattern with central third of runway 01/19 dsgnd ultralight/lsa landing and takeoff area. Ultralight/lsa pattern entry crosses field approximately 2000 feet from either approach end at 541 feet above ground level.
- Grass strip 4.9 NM northwest of airport.
- Runway/taxiway sepn approx 200 feet. South end taxiway/parked aircraft sepn approx 75 feet.
- Ramp fees for turbine aircraft.
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.