• Source: Northeastern Regional Airport

      • Northeastern Regional Airport (IATA: EDE, ICAO: KEDE, FAA LID: EDE) is a public use airport in Chowan County, North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the town of Edenton and located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of its central business district. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.


      History


      The airport was originally constructed during World War II by the United States Navy as Marine Corps Air Station Edenton. In this role, it hosted Marine Operational Training Group 81 (MOTG-81) and its subordinate squadrons. MOTG-81 trained pilots, air crewmen and ground crews on the land-based PBJ-1 medium bomber, a U.S. Navy / U.S. Marine Corps variant of the U.S. Army Air Forces' B-25 Mitchell bomber that was operated by Marine bombing squadrons, primarily in the Pacific theater.
      On March 1, 1945, the installation was re-designated as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Edenton and was administered by Marine Air Base Squadron 14 (MABS-14). The Marine Corps reactivated the station on March 1, 1949 and began operations the following day. Marine Corps fighter squadrons flying the F9F-2 Panther and attack squadrons flying the AD-4B and AD-5 Skyraider were based there during the Korean War and early years of the Cold War. NAAS Edenton was decommissioned in the 1960s and turned over to the local government for conversion to a civilian airport.
      The sole operational runway, Runway 1/19, was originally an 8,000 foot by 200 foot paved surface when control of the air station was relinquished by the military. Although the entire pavement length remains, the approach ends have been displaced and only a 6,000 foot by 100 foot section is currently maintained and usable. A Category I ILS approach has also been installed on Runway 19, albeit without any precision approach lighting. Although still standing, the former air station's air traffic control tower was abandoned upon the military's departure and has never reopened, leaving the airport as a non-towered airport as over 90% of all airports are in the U.S.A. Several of the other former military buildings have since been converted to multiple civilian aviation and non-aviation uses.


      Facilities and aircraft


      Northeastern Regional Airport covers an area of 734 acres (297 ha) at an elevation of 19 feet (6 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 1/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,001 by 100 feet (1,829 x 30 m).
      For the 12-month period ending July 8, 2023 the airport had 14,000 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 93% general aviation, 4% air taxi, and 4% military.
      At that time there were 19 aircraft based at this airport: 17 single-engine, 1 multi-engine, and 1 helicopter.


      See also


      List of airports in North Carolina
      List of United States Marine Corps Air Stations


      References




      External links


      Northeastern Regional Airport at Town of Edenton, NC website
      "Northeastern Regional Airport - EDE" (PDF). at North Carolina DOT airport guide
      Aerial image as of March 1993 from USGS The National Map
      FAA Terminal Procedures for EDE, effective November 28, 2024
      Resources for this airport:
      FAA airport information for EDE
      AirNav airport information for KEDE
      ASN accident history for EDE
      FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
      NOAA/NWS weather observations: current, past three days
      SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures

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