Herold Airport
WV63 · Craigsville, West Virginia · Nicholas County · map
Herold Airport is a private airport, 1 mile north of Craigsville, West Virginia, 2,346 feet above sea level. Its one runway, NE/SW, is 1,450 feet of grass.
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 WV63
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,346 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
- 6W
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1973
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| NE/SW | 1,450 × 100 ft | Grass, good |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Braxton County (21 nm north), Greenbrier Valley Airport (31 nm southeast), Raleigh County Memorial (40 nm southwest), West Virginia International Yeager (44 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Summersville Airport (12 nm southwest), Braxton County (21 nm north), Greenbrier Valley Airport (31 nm southeast), Raleigh County Memorial (40 nm southwest).
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
- Airport located in town at junction of sunrise 20 and sunrise 55.
- PLINE-M south end of runway unlighted.
- Non-standard BATTERY-POWERED LEAD-IN lights.
- Approach not used 43 feet pwr poles cross landing strip southwest end.
- Landing surface marked with reflectors mounted on 2 feet stakes.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Craigsville from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Craigsville, 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
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in West Virginia 424 since 1982 · 54 in the last ten years
- 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/WV63.json.
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 30, 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.