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Jackson County Airport (24A) is a small general-aviation airfield near Sylva in the mountains of western North Carolina, notable chiefly for its high elevation. It offers a single hard-surfaced, lit runway and no instrument approach, making it a strictly visual-flight destination for sim pilots seeking a mountain-airfield challenge.
Jackson County Airport, identified as 24A, serves the town of Sylva in western North Carolina. Sitting at a field elevation of 2831 feet, it is a high-altitude general-aviation strip in mountainous terrain, which gives it a distinctive character for visiting pilots who must account for reduced aircraft performance and density altitude effects at this height.
The airfield lies at coordinates 35.3172, -83.2097, in the hilly country around Sylva, North Carolina.
Jackson County has a single physical runway, 15/33, of hard surface and lit for night operations. The available landing length is 3129 feet on runway 15 and 2992 feet on runway 33. The field has no instrument landing system, so all approaches must be flown visually.
