New Market Airport

{{Short description|Airport in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox Airport

| name = New Market Airport

| image =

| FAA = 8W2

| type = Public

| owner = Robert Thomas

| operator =

| city-served = New Market, Virginia

| location =

| elevation-f = 975

| elevation-m = 297

| coordinates = {{coord|38|39|20|N|078|42|29|W|region:US-VA_type:airport_scale:10000}}

| website =

| r1-number = 6/24

| r1-length-f = 2,920

| r1-length-m = 890

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| stat-year = 2009

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations

| stat1-data = 15,413

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 27

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=8W2|use=PU|own=PR|site=25893.1*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 3 June 2010.

}}

New Market Airport {{airport codes|||8W2}} is a privately owned public-use airport located two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central business district of New Market, a town in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The facility serves primarily general aviation for the areas around New Market. The facility is also the base for a skydiving operation—Skydive Shenandoah—and arriving aircraft should be sure to check if skydiving operations are in progress on Unicom frequency 122.80. Skydiving Operations are intensive on weekends throughout the year.

Facilities and aircraft

New Market Airport covers an area of {{convert|44|acre|ha|lk=on}} at an elevation of 975 feet (297 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,920 by 60 feet (890 x 18 m).

For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2009, the airport had 15,413 aircraft operations, an average of 42 per day: 99.3% general aviation and 0.7% military. At that time there were 27 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine and 7% multi-engine.

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