Qualla: Fayetteville Regional Airport

Fayetteville Regional Airport: Introduction

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walk past security at Fayetteville Regional Airport and the first thing you see is the USO. Not a coffee shop, not a Hudson News - the USO. The lounge sits at the seam between Concourse A and Concourse B, doors open onto both, and it tells you everything about who actually uses this airport. KFAY moves a tiny number of passengers by national standards - roughly 250,000 enplanements a year - but most of them are wearing or about to be wearing uniforms. This is the airport of Fort Bragg.

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Fayetteville Regional Airport: Grannis Field

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0. The airport's official name is Fayetteville Regional, but the historical name persists in pilots' notes and aviation paperwork: Grannis Field. It sits on 1,343 acres in southern Cumberland County, three nautical miles south of downtown Fayetteville, at 189 feet above sea level. T...

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Fayetteville Regional Airport: Who Comes and Goes

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0. In a 12-month period ending December 2022, the airport handled 33,327 aircraft operations - an average of 91 per day. The breakdown reveals the airport's character: 44 percent general aviation, 37 percent scheduled commercial, 10 percent air taxi, 10 percent military. Seventy-fou...

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Fayetteville Regional Airport: Soldiers Going Home

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0. What the bare ridership statistics don't capture is the rhythm of the place. On certain days of the week, Concourse A fills up with new graduates of Fort Bragg's airborne school, fresh wings on their chests, duffels at their feet, heading home for two weeks of leave before report...

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Fayetteville Regional Airport: Plans for a Different Terminal

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0. Since 2014, the Fayetteville Airport Commission, airport management, and the Fayetteville City Council have been working on terminal expansion. The plan is straightforward: tear down the original Concourse A, which is the older ground-level concourse from the airport's first buil...

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