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Statesville Regional Airport (KSVH) is a city-owned general aviation field in Iredell County, North Carolina, some three miles southwest of downtown Statesville. It is best known in general aviation circles for its cluster of NASCAR-team hangars and corporate jet operations, and it offers pilots a long, lit hard-surface runway with an ILS approach.
Statesville Regional Airport is a public, city-owned general aviation airport serving Statesville and the wider Iredell County area of North Carolina. It has no scheduled airline service, but is a significant corporate and business aviation field, hosting Fortune 500 flight departments and a number of hangars associated with NASCAR race teams. For a sim pilot it offers a straightforward VFR or IFR destination with a substantial paved runway, an ILS approach and a busy mix of transient general aviation and corporate jet traffic.
The airport lies about three miles (5 km) southwest of downtown Statesville, in Iredell County, North Carolina. It is a non-towered field, with traffic worked on a common traffic advisory frequency and en-route guidance available from Atlanta Center.
Statesville has a single physical runway aligned 10/28, of hard surface construction and lit for night operations. Runway 28 is 6,442 ft long and equipped with an ILS approach, while the reciprocal, runway 10, is 5,993 ft long. Field elevation is 955 ft.
Pilots can obtain automated weather from the airport's AWOS on 119.225 MHz. Traffic advisories are exchanged on the common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF) 123.075 MHz, and en-route air traffic control in the area is provided by Atlanta Center on 125.15 MHz. An ILS approach is available to runway 28.
The airport sits roughly three miles southwest of downtown Statesville, a useful reference for pilots orienting themselves visually before joining for the runway 10/28 approach.
Statesville Regional Airport opened around 1935 as a grass airstrip known as Statesville Municipal Airport. Its main runway was paved during the 1950s, with a second runway paved in the 1960s; that second runway was later repaved in 1999 to serve as the parallel taxiway. In the early 2000s the main runway was extended from 5,000 feet to 7,000 feet. The field became closely associated with NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Sr. was the first driver to build a hangar there, operating a small private carrier called Champion Air with a fleet of three Embraer ERJ-145 jets to fly himself and his team. Other NASCAR figures who have kept hangars at Statesville include Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ryan Newman, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle and Martin Truex Jr. Lowe's built a 40,000-square-foot hangar at the airport in 2004 after relocating its headquarters from North Wilkesboro to Mooresville, housing five Dassault Falcon jets and a Sikorsky helicopter.
The airport today functions as a general aviation and corporate aviation hub, with a full parallel taxiway alongside its main runway able to accommodate corporate aircraft of any size. It is home to seventeen aircraft hangars in total and two maintenance facilities, supporting Cessna Citation and Dornier 328 jets. Available services include fuel and oil, rental cars, catering and freight handling. In 2023 the airport recorded around 41,200 aircraft operations, the large majority transient general aviation traffic, alongside local general aviation, air taxi and a small amount of military activity. A new terminal building project has also been undertaken as part of continued investment in the airport's facilities.