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Transylvania Community Airport (3NR3) is a small, privately operated airfield in the mountains near Brevard, North Carolina, offering a single hard-surfaced runway at just over 2,100 feet elevation. It is a VFR-only field with no air traffic control and no published radio frequencies, making it a quiet but terrain-aware destination for the sim pilot exploring the Blue Ridge foothills.
Transylvania Community Airport, identified as 3NR3, is a small, privately funded and operated airfield serving the Brevard area of North Carolina. It offers a single paved runway at a field elevation of 2,110 feet and is of interest to the sim pilot chiefly for its setting among the Blue Ridge Mountains and its uncontrolled, VFR-only character, which calls for careful terrain awareness on approach and departure.
The airfield lies close to Brevard, North Carolina, reported as being about four miles east of the town on a small parcel of land (SkyVector). There is no air traffic control tower on the field, and pilots operate under see-and-avoid procedures typical of an uncontrolled mountain airstrip.
3NR3 has a single physical runway, 09/27, with a hard surface roughly 2,818 to 2,819 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach aid associated with the runway.
No communications frequencies are published for Transylvania Community Airport, and there is no control tower. Pilots are required to announce their position to other traffic as they approach the field, in the absence of any assigned CTAF or ATC service. The airfield has no navaids and supports visual approaches only, with no instrument procedures available (3nr3.com).
All aircraft fly a left-hand traffic pattern at 3,000 feet MSL, which equates to roughly 900 feet above the field elevation of 2,110 feet. Given the surrounding high terrain, pilots are advised to fly the pattern around 500 feet higher than normal in order to gain a better topographical view of the local environment before committing to the approach (3nr3.com).
The airfield is set amid the Blue Ridge Mountains close to Brevard, and the surrounding high ground is itself the principal visual reference for pilots inbound to the field; the advice to fly an elevated pattern to assess the terrain underlines how prominent the mountain backdrop is when joining (3nr3.com).
Transylvania Community Airport is privately owned and operated and receives no public capital or operating funds. Access is by prior permission only, so pilots planning a visit should arrange this in advance rather than simply flying in unannounced. The field supports VFR operations only, with tiedown, hangar and landing fees applying to visiting aircraft (3nr3.com).
