Mount Olive Municipal
W40 · Mount Olive, North Carolina · Wayne County · map
Mount Olive Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Mt Olive and Wayne County, 3 miles northeast of Mount Olive, North Carolina, 167 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 5,254 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W40
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Mt Olive and Wayne County
- Elevation
- 167 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Charlotte sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 5,254 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 65 ft high 2,005 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 254 ft, road 19 ft high 279 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.7 | |
| W40 and aWOS-3P | 120.075 | |
| New Bern Center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.85 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 919-658-8067.
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 Mount Olive from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Mount Olive, North Carolina: 12 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 drone. 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 North Carolina.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- VFR operations only.
- After sunset activate and incr intst medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency. Activate PAPI runway 05 and 23 - the common traffic frequency.
- For avgas and jet a - 24 hour self service with credit card.
- Approach slope 20:1 to displaced threshold.
- Runway 05 +200 feet AM radio tower approx 6000 feet southwest of runway end on centerline.
- LOW-LEVEL military act near airport.
- -5 feet drainage ditch 100 feet left of centerline of runway 05.
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.