Freeway Airport
W00 · Bowie, Maryland · Prince Georges County · map
Freeway Airport is a public-use airport owned by Freeway Airport INC., 2 miles northwest of Bowie, Maryland, 168 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,420 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W00
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Freeway Airport INC.
- Elevation
- 168 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 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
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1961
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,420 × 40 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the right, trees 67 ft high 848 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 230 ft, trees 48 ft high 569 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Approach and departure DC sfra | 128.0 | |
| Tikee and star | 120.45 | |
| Irons and star | 126.4 |
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Aircraft registered in Bowie from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Bowie, Maryland: 8 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 glider. 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 Maryland.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 28 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.
- Pattern altitude 1000 feet above sea level (832 feet above ground level) for aircraft less than 4000 pounds maximum gross weight; pattern altitude 1200 feet above sea level (1032 feet above ground level) for aircraft greater than 4000 pounds.
- Activate PAPI runways 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Unatndd major holidays.
- 100LL available when atndd.
- +7 feet road at 115 feet out, OB.
- +18 feet trees at 175 feet out, 22 feet R.
- Approach ratio 15:1 to displaced threshold at centerline.
- -15 feet drop 80 feet from approach to runway 36.
- -7 feet drop 50 feet from approach end runway 18.
- Unlighted antenna 135 feet above ground level 600 feet northwest aer 18.
- Taxiway runup area for runway 36 closed.
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.