Mid Atlantic Soaring Center Airport
W73 · Fairfield, Pennsylvania · Adams County · map
Mid Atlantic Soaring Center Airport is a public-use airport owned by Mid-Atlantic Soaring Assoc., 2 miles southeast of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, 573 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 2,700 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W73
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Mid-Atlantic Soaring Assoc.
- Elevation
- 573 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- weekends, daylight hours; unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1971
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 2,700 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 15: trees 84 ft high 370 ft from the end
- Runway 33: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 900 ft, trees 60 ft high 1,022 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 123.3 |
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Aircraft registered in Fairfield from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Fairfield, Pennsylvania: 10 piston singles, 2 gliders. 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 Pennsylvania.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- Extensive glider gnd and flight operations.
- Segm circ on west side of airport; 45 feet diam.
- Pattern altitude 1365' above sea level.
- Multicom 123.3 used during glider activity.
- Attnd SAT-SUN and fed holidays durg daylight hours when weather permits.
- Runway 15 has +15 feet road at runway end 125 feet L/R of centerline.
- Runway 15 not marked with thld or mag hdg.
- Runway 33 approach slope 20:1 to displaced thld.
- Runway 15 closed for approach and landing. Extreme caution: all takeoffs use runway 15. All approaches and landings use runway 33. Rotorcraft air and hover taxi restricted to runway.
- Karlindo personal use airport located 1300 feet east of runways.
- Airport operations restricted, iaw tfr rules, when P-40 expanded to 10 NM radius.
- Gliders occasionally lnd on grass area adjacent to runway 15/33.
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.