Danville Regional Airport


Danville Regional Airport is three miles east of Danville, in southern Virginia. The Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 categorized it as a regional general aviation facility.
The first airline flights were Eastern DC-3s in 1947; Eastern pulled out in 1964. Piedmont arrived in 1948.

Facilities

The airport covers at an elevation of 571 feet. It has two asphalt runways: 2/20 is 5,900 by 100 feet and 13/31 is 3,910 by 100 feet.
In the year ending August 31, 2014 the airport had 20,773 aircraft operations, average 57 per day: 99% general aviation and <1% military. In January 2017 38 aircraft were based at the airport: 33 single-engine, 3 multi-engine and 2 jets.

Taxiway revamp

In January 2017 the City Council of Danville approved a 3.1 million dollar project to rebuild taxiway "A" while narrowing it to 35 feet. Construction work is scheduled to begin in March 2017.