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Pitt-Greenville Airport (KPGV) serves Greenville, North Carolina, lying close to East Carolina University a couple of miles north of the city centre. A public field handling general aviation traffic alongside a modest commuter service to Charlotte, it offers an ILS approach and a good length of hard runway, making it a straightforward and interesting destination for the visiting sim pilot.
Pitt-Greenville Airport, identified as KPGV (IATA: PGV), is a public airport serving Greenville, North Carolina, and the adjacent East Carolina University. It is used mainly for general aviation but also carries American Eagle commuter flights to Charlotte. For the simulator pilot it is a compact, well-equipped field with an instrument landing system, a long primary runway and a strong wartime history as a Marine Corps outlying field, giving it more character than the average small regional airport.
The airport sits about two miles north of downtown Greenville, North Carolina, and close to East Carolina University. Traffic in the area is coordinated with Washington Center on 135.5 MHz, and clearance delivery is available on 122.35 MHz, indicating that IFR traffic in the vicinity is worked through the wider Washington Center airspace structure.
Pitt-Greenville has two physical runways. Runway 02/20 is the longer of the pair, a lit hard-surfaced runway of up to 7,168 feet with an ILS serving Runway 20. Runway 08/26 is a shorter lit hard-surfaced runway of 4,982 feet. Field elevation is 23 feet above mean sea level.
The airport broadcasts weather on AWOS at 128.425 MHz. Traffic advisories and general communication are handled on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. Clearance delivery is available on 122.35 MHz, and Washington Center can be reached on 135.5 MHz. An ILS approach is provided for Runway 20, and a GPS RNAV vertically guided approach has also been introduced for Runway 2.
As a non-towered field, arriving and departing traffic uses the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz to make position calls and coordinate with other aircraft in the pattern.
East Carolina University, situated close to the airport in Greenville, serves as a useful landmark for pilots orienting themselves toward the field from the south.
The Works Progress Administration built Greenville Airport in 1940 on land jointly owned by the city of Greenville and Pitt County, and a Civil Pilot Training Program operated there in its early years. The United States Navy leased the field on 1 May 1942 as an outlying field of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, though it saw little use until the Civil Aeronautics Administration announced upgrades in November 1942. Marine Corps flying squadrons arrived from January 1944, beginning with scout bombing squadrons VMSB-343 and VMSB-344, followed by fighter squadrons VMF-913 and VMF-914 in July and photo reconnaissance squadrons VMD-354 and VMD-954 in October. During the war, Outlying Field Greenville was the busiest of all of MCAS Cherry Point's outlying fields. In more recent decades the field has also seen airline service, including a former Delta Air Lines connection to Atlanta.
Pitt-Greenville continues to support general aviation alongside American Eagle's commuter service to Charlotte. A renovated air terminal, funded by a $7.9 million federal stimulus project, opened on 24 February 2011 after two years of planning and eighteen months of construction. Runway 2/20 was subsequently extended by 670 feet, with groundbreaking in August 2013 and completion in 2014, a project intended to bring the runway up to current safety standards, clear tree obstacles, and allow modern charter aircraft, including those used by visiting sports teams, to operate at full payload.