Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport
IATA: BCB ICAO: KBCB FAA LID: BCB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Virginia Tech Montgomery Regional Airport Authority
Serves	Blacksburg, Virginia
Elevation AMSL	2,120 ft / 646 m
Website	www.vtmea.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 13/31 5,500 1,700 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Aircraft operations 16,700
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport (IATA: BCB, ICAO: KBCB, FAA LID: BCB) is a public airport named for nearby Virginia Tech and located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Blacksburg, a town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States.

Virginia Tech Montgomery Executive Airport covers an area of 248 acres (100 ha) and contains one asphalt paved runway, designated 13/31 and measuring 5500 x 100 ft (1,700 x 30 m).

For the period ending August 1, 2020, the airport had 16,700 aircraft operations, an average of 45 per day: 96% general aviation, 2% air taxi and 2% military. BCB is an instrument flight rules airport with GPS approaches to both runways, a LOC/DME approach to runway 12, a non-precision NDB approach, and an automated weather observing system (AWOS-3).

The airport officially opened in 1931 as VPI Airport (Virginia Tech was previously abbreviated VPI). University cadets trained to fly there during World War II. A new terminal building was completed in 1996, and the airport took its current name in 2002.

• Official website
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for BCB
  • AirNav airport information for KBCB
  • ASN accident history for BCB
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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