First Flight Airport

First Flight Airport
First Flight Airport from 1,000 feet (305 meters)
IATA: FFA ICAO: KFFA FAA LID: FFA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	U.S. National Park Service
Serves	Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
Location	Wright Brothers National Memorial
Elevation AMSL	13 ft (4.0 m)
Coordinates	36°01′06″N 075°40′17″W
Website	www.nps.gov/places/000/first-flight-airstrip.htm
Map
Interactive map of First Flight Airport
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03/21 3,000 914 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Aircraft operations 37,500
Source: Federal Aviation Administration

First Flight Airport (IATA: FFA, ICAO: KFFA, FAA LID: FFA) is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) west of the central business district of Kill Devil Hills, a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The airport is owned by the U.S. National Park Service. It was included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

The airport itself is famous for being the site of hundreds of pre-flight gliding experiments carried out by the Wright brothers. The Wright Brothers National Memorial, located atop nearby Kill Devil Hill, is a 60-foot (18-meter) granite pylon paying homage to the Wright Brothers and the first sustained heavier-than-air flight. The U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission also chose the airport as one of the stops for the National Air Tour 2003.