Stanly County Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KVUJ FAA LID: VUJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Stanly County
Serves	Albemarle, North Carolina
Elevation AMSL	609 ft / 186 m
Coordinates	35°25′00″N 080°09′03″W / 35.41667°N 80.15083°W / 35.41667; -80.15083
Website	StanlyCountyAirport.com
Map
VUJ Location of airport in North Carolina
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 4R/22L 5,499 1,676 Asphalt 4L/22R 3,501 1,067 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 5/29/2023) 28,068 Based aircraft 43
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Stanly County Airport (ICAO: KVUJ, FAA LID: VUJ) is a county-owned, joint civil-military, public-use airport in Stanly County, North Carolina, United States. It is located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) northeast of the central business district of Albemarle, North Carolina.^[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned VUJ by the FAA^[1] but has no assignment from the IATA.^[3] The airport's ICAO identifier is KVUJ.^[4]

Stanly County Air National Guard Station

Stanly County Airport serves as a regional training site for the North Carolina Air National Guard. The 235th Air Traffic Control Squadron (235 ATCS) operates the control tower at the airport. Also located at the airport's Air National Guard Station are the 118th Air Support Operations Squadron (118 ASOS), 156th Weather Flight (156 WF) and the 263d Combat Communications Squadron (263 CCS). Runway 4R/22L was frequently used as an assault strip by the C-130s of the North Carolina Air National Guard's 145th Airlift Wing (145 AW) based in Charlotte; that unit is now transitioning to the C-17 Globemaster III.^[5]

Facilities and aircraft

Stanly County Airport covers an area of 800 acres (324 ha) at an elevation of 609 feet (186 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces:4R/22L is 5,499 by 100 feet (1,676 x 30 m) and 4L/22R is 3,501 by 75 feet (1,067 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending May 29, 2023, the airport had 28,068 aircraft operations, an average of 77 per day: 63% general aviation and 38% military. At that time there were 43 aircraft based at this airport: 37 single-engine and 6 multi-engine.^[1]