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Accomack County Airport (KMFV) is a county-owned, public-use general aviation airport on Virginia's Eastern Shore, a mile west of the town of Melfa. It offers a single ILS-equipped hard-surface runway and traces its origins to a World War II emergency landing strip, making it a useful and historically interesting stop for VFR pilots touring the Delmarva Peninsula.
Accomack County Airport, identified as KMFV, is a county-owned public-use aerodrome serving the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It sits close to the small town of Melfa and is used mainly for general aviation training and touring flights. The field's single long runway, complete with an ILS approach, together with its origins as a wartime military airstrip, give it a character that is a little more substantial than its quiet rural setting might suggest.
The airport lies in unincorporated Accomack County, about one mile west of the centre of Melfa, Virginia, on around 100 acres of land. It sits in uncontrolled airspace typical of this part of the Eastern Shore, with IFR and instrument traffic worked by Norfolk Approach/Departure.
KMFV has one physical runway, 03/21, a hard-surfaced strip 4,995 feet long that is lit for night operations. An ILS approach serves runway 03. Field elevation is 46 feet.
Traffic not in contact with Norfolk Approach/Departure should expect that facility on 126.05 MHz for arrivals and departures under IFR. Weather is available from the airport's AWOS on 118.175 MHz. As the field has no control tower, UNICOM/CTAF traffic advisories are made on 122.8 MHz.
Accomack County is an uncontrolled field, so pilots should make position calls and coordinate with other traffic on the 122.8 MHz CTAF/UNICOM frequency in the absence of a published local joining procedure.
The airport is located about one mile west of the built-up area of Melfa, making the town itself a useful reference point for pilots inbound from the east.
The airfield was built by the United States Army Air Forces around 1942 as the Melfa Flight Strip, serving as an emergency landing field for military training flights during the Second World War. It was closed at the end of the war and handed over for local government use by the War Assets Administration. Between April 1957 and October 1958 the north end of runway 21 was used by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory for tests in which a Vought F7U Cutlass dropped simulated atomic anti-runway bombs to assess penetration effects; the repairs made to the displaced threshold section from this testing remain visible on aerial photographs today.
The airport is owned by the Accomack County Airport Commission and continues to operate as a general aviation field. Historical FAA figures recorded around 14,000 aircraft operations a year, the great majority general aviation with smaller shares of air taxi and military traffic, and around 23 aircraft based on the field, mostly single-engine types.
