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Green Bank Observatory Airport

WV52 · Green Bank, West Virginia · Pocahontas County · map

Green Bank Observatory Airport is a private airport, 1 mile northeast of Green Bank, West Virginia, 2,710 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,500 feet of asphalt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes: FAA WV52
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 2,710 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart: Cincinnati sectional
Magnetic variation: 7W
In the FAA's files since: June 1983

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
12/30	3,500 × 50 ft	Asphalt

Runway 12: tower 451 ft high 2,175 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

UNICOM

122.8

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: none reported
Repairs: none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Elkins/Randolph County (Jennings Randolph Field) (28 nm north), Ingalls Field (29 nm south), Upshur County Regional (40 nm northwest), Bridgewater Air Park Airport (41 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Elkins/Randolph County (Jennings Randolph Field) (28 nm north), Ingalls Field (29 nm south), Upshur County Regional (40 nm northwest), Braxton County (42 nm west).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in West Virginia · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

Acknowledged for record purposes.
Land by prior permission only.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Green Bank from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Green Bank, WV as the owner's town.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Elkins/Randolph County (Jennings Randolph Field) EKN · 28 nm north Ingalls Field HSP · 29 nm south Deer Creek Farm Airport WV00 · 3 nm northeast · private Snowshoe Resort/Topof The World Heliport 14WV · 8 nm west · private Snowshoe Heliport WV74 · 8 nm west · private Snowshoe Airport 8WV3 · 10 nm northwest · private Hannah Field 7VA9 · 11 nm east · private Singleton Airport 97VA · 14 nm south · private

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

Record

Accidents and incidents in West Virginia 423 since 1982 · 53 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in West Virginia 32 landing places
West Virginia 886 aircraft registered

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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.