Calling anyone near SUT (Southport, NC)

FlyGirlKHWO

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Considering purchasing some property near there and would love to talk to a local pilot.
 
What do you want to know? Not local but I fly there often.
 
How the airport to deal with? Prevailing/Cross winds a problem with a 5/23 runway? I'm still a baby pilot and would like to know what I'm getting myself into, if i buy and hangar up there. I fly a Grumman Tiger.
 
FlyGirlKHWO said:
How the airport to deal with? Prevailing/Cross winds a problem with a 5/23 runway? I'm still a baby pilot and would like to know what I'm getting myself into, if i buy and hangar up there. I fly a Grumman Tiger.
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I have a friend who bought a place down there just a stones throw from the airport. Can you handle a 5500x100 runway? I assume so, you passed your checkride. It's a decent place...small town, it's fair share of retirees, etc.
 
Was there for a Cessna Pilots Society gathering a few years ago, seemed like a nice place.
 
Howie Franklin who runs the airport there was chief steward on AF-1 for many years. He knows how to treat people. We had our Navion society national conventions there a few years back. I've got one friend whose a pilot who owns property off the back side of the airport as well as another (non-pilot) friend who lives over in St. James Plantation and we visit the area periodically (I also have a friend on a residential airpark across the river in Carolina Beach).

I have a place over near Charlotte.
 
5/23 is pretty much standard here. The only time you'll run into a problem is after the passage of a strong cold front in the winter. That can be followed by 2 days of freezing cold, strong NW winds. You don't really want to go flying then anyway.

No idea about the hangar situation.. they seem to have a lot of hangars, but the place is always busy. They might be full.
 
flyingron said:
Howie Franklin who runs the airport there was chief steward on AF-1 for many years. He knows how to treat people. We had our Navion society national conventions there a few years back. I've got one friend whose a pilot who owns property off the back side of the airport as well as another (non-pilot) friend who lives over in St. James Plantation and we visit the area periodically (I also have a friend on a residential airpark across the river in Carolina Beach).

I have a place over near Charlotte.
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Visited there a couple of years ago. I LOVED Howie's office. A mini museum of prezes. And quite a gentleman. If I lived near there, I'd park my plane there just to see him.
 
You need to speak with Doug Oakley. He lives there, flys out of SUT, and, I believe, sells property on Bald Head Island.
 
My partner and I own a PA-32 based at SUT. The T hangars are probably full but seem to have planes moving in and out fairly often so there may not be much of a wait. There are a couple of community hangars on the field and another under construction on the west side of the runway. where the FBO will eventually relocate under the master plan. In the last year a parallel taxiway was completed on the west side also. There is a good mix of traffic particularly in the summer with jets delivering vacationers. There is a skydiving operation on the field, but they mix well with the other traffic. There are also a paint shop, flight school and A&P maintenance facilities there. As others have said, the manager Howie is a real people person and takes pride in good customer service. The wind is typically not a problem with relatively few days of serious crosswinds.
 
I've jumped with the Skydive operation there.
 
Thanks for all the responses, they help move me forward! (w/o a towbar, LOL)

best,

Allison
 
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