Hummel Field
W75 · Saluda, Virginia · Middlesex County · map
Hummel Field is a public-use airport owned by Middlesex County, 6 miles east of Saluda, Virginia, 30 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 3,150 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W75
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Middlesex County
- Elevation
- 30 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 4:00 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
- April 1942
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,150 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 92 ft high 1,463 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 67 ft high 1,713 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.875 | |
| W75 and aWOS-3 | 118.45 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 804-758-8592.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Saluda from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Saluda, VA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 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
- Topping is the city closest to the apt. Apt is 2 miles ene.
- Drainage swales full length of runway on both sides; use of exit in front of Hummel aviation advised.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 01 and 19 operations continuously.
- Unatndd thanksgiving, christmas day and new YEAR'S.
- Apt physical address is: 310 planeview road topping, VA 23169
- 18 feet building located 200 feet from pavement end, 204 feet right of centerline.
- Field immediately north of runway 19. 7 feet corn growing at times.
- Road runs perpendicular to runway end.
- Departure runway 01/19: climb to 500 feet before any turn out; arrival aircraft use wide pattern to avoid populated areas east and west of airport.
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport during winter.
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.