Airports in North Carolina
All airports closest to North Carolina's geographic center, ranked by the number of scheduled departures on file. Click any IATA code to see the airport's destinations, operators, and route table.
| IATA | Airport | City | Departures |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLT | Charlotte Douglas International Airport | Charlotte | 301 |
| RDU | Raleigh Durham International Airport | Raleigh-durham | 83 |
| GSO | Piedmont Triad International Airport | Greensboro | 25 |
| ILM | Wilmington International Airport | Wilmington | 13 |
| FAY | Fayetteville Regional Grannis Field | Fayetteville | 8 |
| OAJ | Albert J Ellis Airport | Jacksonville NC | 7 |
| EWN | Coastal Carolina Regional Airport | New Bern | 5 |
| PGV | Pitt Greenville Airport | Greenville | 2 |
| POB | Pope Field | Fort Bragg | 0 |
| HKY | Hickory Regional Airport | Hickory | 0 |
| INT | Smith Reynolds Airport | Winston-salem | 0 |
| GSB | Seymour Johnson Air Force Base | Goldsboro | 0 |
| USA | Concord-Padgett Regional Airport | Concord | 0 |
| ISO | Kinston Regional Jetport At Stallings Field | Kinston | 0 |
| RWI | Rocky Mount Wilson Regional Airport | Rocky Mount | 0 |
| MRN | Foothills Regional Airport | Morganton | 0 |
| FBG | Simmons Army Air Field | Fredericksburg | 0 |
| LBT | Lumberton Regional Airport | Lumberton | 0 |
| SOP | Moore County Airport | Pinehurst-Southern Pines | 0 |
| SVH | Statesville Regional Airport | Statesville | 0 |
| OCW | Warren Field | Washington | 0 |
| IKB | Wilkes County Airport | North Wilkesboro | 0 |
| DAN | Danville Regional Airport | Danville | 0 |
| HCW | Cheraw Municipal Airport/Lynch Bellinger Field | Cheraw | 0 |
About this list
North Carolina's airport list is built by taking every US airport in the source dataset, computing the great-circle distance from each airport to all 52 state centroids, and grouping the airport under the closest one. Every state ends up with a populated page that way, including the small states that share their nearest international gateway with a neighbour. The flip side is that a handful of airports very close to a state border get filed under the neighbouring side.
The departures column reflects the number of distinct scheduled routes recorded against each airport in the OpenFlights routes table. A high count usually indicates a hub or focus city for one or more carriers; a low count typically points to seasonal or single-carrier service. For an authoritative real-time view, always confirm schedules with the operating airline.
Connecting onward
Most travelers in North Carolina reach long-haul destinations by connecting through a larger national or international hub. On any airport page below, the destinations table links straight through to the destination airport, where you can repeat the drill-down to see how onward connections fan out from there. Browsing this way gives you a feel for how a state plugs into the wider US and global network. Even small airports usually sit one or two hops away from any major world city.