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Avery Co (7A8) is a small private airstrip at Spruce Pine, North Carolina, sitting high in the Appalachian foothills at 2,720 feet elevation. It offers two intersecting hard-surfaced runways and is best suited to pilots comfortable with mountain-airfield operations and careful visual navigation in the surrounding high terrain.
Avery Co (ICAO 7A8) is a small airfield near Spruce Pine in western North Carolina, sited at a field elevation of 2,720 feet amid the mountainous terrain of the southern Appalachians. Its two crossing hard-surfaced runways and modest size make it a field of interest chiefly to general aviation and simulator pilots exploring the high country of the North Carolina mountains, where terrain and weather demand careful VFR planning.
The field lies at coordinates 35.9454, -81.9962 near Spruce Pine, North Carolina, in a region of rugged, high-elevation Appalachian terrain. At 2,720 feet above sea level, the surrounding ground rises well above the airfield itself in places, and pilots should expect the kind of terrain awareness required at other mountain strips in this part of the state.
Avery Co has two physical runways, laid out as crossing strips rather than a single reciprocal pair. Runway 17/35 is the primary strip, with the 35 threshold offering 3,187 feet of hard-surfaced runway and the 17 threshold offering 3,098 feet, both coded as hard (H) surface in the aerodrome data. There is no ILS at the field, so any approach must be flown visually.
