Wallops Flight Facility Airport

Wallops Island, Virginia, United States

Also known as: Naval Auxiliary Air Station Chincoteague

Small Airport

Timezone America/New_York

Local Time —

Elevation 40 ft (12 m)

Coordinates 37.9408°N, 75.4623°W

Runways 6

WAL is the IATA airport code for Wallops Flight Facility Airport, located in Wallops Island, United States. Its ICAO code is KWAL. The airport is classified as a Small Airport. It operates in the America/New_York timezone at an elevation of 40 ft (12 m) above sea level. It has 6 runways.

About Wallops Flight Facility Airport

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Wallops Flight Facility is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and primarily serves to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets; small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets; high-altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research; and, using its Research Airport, flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft, including unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Runways (6)

Designation	Length	Width	Surface	Lighted	Status
04/22	8,748 ft (2,666 m)	150 ft (46 m)	Pem	Yes	Open
10/28	8,005 ft (2,440 m)	200 ft (61 m)	Asphalt	Yes	Open
17/35	4,808 ft (1,465 m)	150 ft (46 m)	Asphalt	Yes	Open
04/22	8,748 ft (2,666 m)	150 ft (46 m)	Pem	Yes	Open
10/28	8,005 ft (2,440 m)	200 ft (61 m)	Asphalt	Yes	Open
17/35	4,808 ft (1,465 m)	150 ft (46 m)	Asphalt	Yes	Open