Grant County
W99 · Petersburg, West Virginia · Grant County · map
Grant County is a public-use airport owned by Grant County Airport Auth, 1 mile southwest of Petersburg, West Virginia, 963 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA W99
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Grant County Airport Auth
- Elevation
- 963 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Cincinnati sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1941
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: fence 6 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 31: LDA with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, fence 6 ft high 305 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| W99 and aWOS-3PT | 124.475 | |
| Linden and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.55 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 304-257-2477.
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 Petersburg from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Petersburg, West Virginia: 4 gliders, 2 piston singles. 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 West Virginia.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 13 and 31; PAPI runway 31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency.
- Glider operations.
- Overnight tiedown fee waived with fuel purchase.
- Self service fuel 24/7.
- Right traffic for glider and ULTRA-LIGHT only. All other powered aircraft standard left traffic pattern.
- FLY-IN campground on airport.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -7C.
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.