Falwell Airport
W24 · Lynchburg, Virginia · Lynchburg County · map
Falwell Airport is a public-use airport owned by 4180 Richmond Highway LLC, 3 miles southeast of Lynchburg, Virginia, 939 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 2,932 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W24
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- 4180 Richmond Highway LLC
- Elevation
- 939 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- April to October, every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; every day, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,932 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: tree 59 ft high 315 ft from the end
- Runway 28: tri-color on the left, trees 20 ft high 310 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · Activate tril runway 28 the common traffic frequency |
| Approach and departure East of lyh vortac | 125.475 | |
| Approach and departure West of lyh vortac | 135.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Lynchburg from the FAA register
92 aircraft are registered to owners in Lynchburg, Virginia: 65 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 7 business jets, 4 turboprops, 3 balloons. 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 Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 since 1982, 0 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
- Prior to 1959
- No tgl.
- Activate tril runway 28 the common traffic frequency
- Land runway 28 (west) takeoff runway 10 (east).
- Runway 10 +47 feet tree 89 feet from thld 76 feet rht.
- 13 feet line of trees 180 feet left of threshold on approach.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Runway 28 closed for TAKE-OFF runway 10 closed for landing
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.