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Western North Carolina Air Museum Airport is a small grass airstrip at Hendersonville, North Carolina, notable chiefly for being home to the Western North Carolina Air Museum. It offers a single grass runway suited to light, slow-flying aircraft and offers no radio, navigation aids or instrument approaches, making it a strictly visual, self-announced operation.
Western North Carolina Air Museum Airport (8NC9) is a small grass-strip aerodrome located at Hendersonville, North Carolina, and is best known as the base of the Western North Carolina Air Museum. For a simulator pilot it is an interesting short-field grass destination with a single runway and minimal infrastructure, offering a taste of unimproved backcountry-style flying close to a populated town.
The airfield sits at Hendersonville, North Carolina, at an elevation of 2080 feet. No specific airspace classification, controlling authority or nearby controlled airspace is given in the available data.
The airfield has one physical runway, 14/32, surfaced in grass and measuring 2397 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach equipment.
No communications frequencies are published for this airfield, and there is no radio or ATC service on record. There are no navaids and no instrument approach procedures associated with the field.
The airfield is associated with the Western North Carolina Air Museum, which is based on the site, though no further historical detail is available.
The Western North Carolina Air Museum operates from the airfield today. Beyond this, no information is available on fuel, operating hours or other current facilities.
