North Carolina - Catawba County Airports




North Carolina - Catawba County Airports

Airport Name	At / Near Town	Type	FAA LID	Year Opened	Year Closed	Comments
1) Hickory Regional Airport	Hickory	General Aviation	HKY	1940	-	Per AirNav - activated 6/1940. Hickory Municipal Airport was first opened to aircraft traffic on May 17, 1940. At that time, there were two unpaved runways which were 2,700 and 3,100 feet in length. On August 2, 1941, Pennsylvania Central Airline, which later became Capital Airlines, brought the first scheduled air-carrier service to Hickory. In May of 1942, civilian aviation was suspended and the airport served as a military pilot training facility (no record that the USAAF gave it a military designator, but it is possible). After WW-II, Capital Airlines resumed scheduled service in August 1951, and continued until August 1952, at which time Piedmont Airlines began to serve Hickory. Owned and operated by the City of Hickory.
2) Laney's Airport	Maiden	Private	N92	1971	-	Per AirNav - activated 8/1971. Owned and operated by Charles Laney.
3) Little Mountain Airport	Drums Crossroads	Private	6NC1	1974	-	Per AirNav - activated 9/1974. Owned and operated by Little Mountain Airport Association.
4) Long Island Airport	Long Island, Sherrill's Ford	Private	NC26	1964	-	Per AirNav - activated 7/1964. Owned and operated by Long Island Airpark Homeowners Association.
5) Mountain View Airport	Sherrill's Ford	Private	20NC	1994	-	Per AirNav - activated 10/1994. Owned and operated by R.A. Jeffords, Jr.
6) Steiger Field Airport	Propst Crossroads	Private	NC78	2018	-	Per AirNav - activated 8/2018. Owned and operated by Brian and Holly Steiger.
7) Wilson's Airport	Propst Crossroads	Private	E40	1982	-	Per AirNav - activated 10/1982. Owned and operated by Wilson's Estate - Claude Wilson.

Airports Found - Virtually Nothing Known Except What's Below
	Airstrip at Hart Square built by Robert Hart, III, M.D. It is on his amazing farm which hosts about 80 log buildings he collected, moved and reconstructed from the surrounding area. Each log structure has a different function and is loaded with period antiques. He opens the farm once annually on the third Saturday in October when about 200 volunteer 19th century tradesmen come and operate the shops. The sod airstrip has a hangar. Hart Square is located about 15 miles due south of Hickory, NC in Catawba County on Sampson Creek, just south of Plateau, NC. It is south of Hope Road, west of Sconce Road, north of Macedonia Church Road and east of Hog Hill. Info provided in January 2019 by CBB.