Crewe Municipal
W81 · Crewe, Virginia · Nottoway County · map
Crewe Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Crewe, 1 mile east of Crewe, Virginia, 422 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 3,300 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W81
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Crewe
- Elevation
- 422 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Washington sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1964
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 3,300 × 60 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: threshold displaced 277 ft, 3,023 ft available for landing, tree 57 ft high 569 ft from the end
- Runway 33: tree 85 ft high 2,825 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Green Bay Center (remote transmitter) Low | 118.75 | |
| W81 and aWOS-3 | 119.050 |
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Aircraft registered in Crewe from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Crewe, Virginia: 2 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- For medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 key the common traffic frequency 5 times on; 3 times off.
- Rising ground off the end of runway 15.
- Runway 15 dspld tshld markings in poor condition. Old markings showing through
- Markings faded.
- Approach ratio 11:1 to dthr.
- Runway has large cracks.
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.
