OAJ

Albert J Ellis Airport

ICAO KOAJ34.8292°N 77.6121°W93 ft / 28 mMedium airport
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Albert J Ellis Airport (IATA: OAJ, ICAO: KOAJ) is a medium airport in Richlands, North Carolina, United States. It opened in Feb 1971. It has one runway, 7,100 ft (2,164 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 314 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1971–1971
FEB 1971
OpenedAlbert J Ellis Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Commercial TerminalExecutive Terminal
05/23044° / 224° · LIT
LENGTH7,100 ft2,164 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
301K
302K
314K
308K
329K
212K
323K
274K
270K
292K
314K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from OAJ. From the Wikipedia article “Albert J. Ellis Airport” (revision of 14 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

2 airlines · destinations from OAJ
Passenger2
—American Eagle1—Delta Connection1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from OAJ. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers314K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,318of 3,974 · #302 North America · #201 USLongest runway7,100 ft2,164 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,396of 29,858 · =774 North America · =582 USElevation93 ft28 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=37,187of 43,403 · =16,867 North America · =14,075 USAgeOpened 19712026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=6,388of 15,079 · =4,595 North America · =4,505 USRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =2,583 North America · =2,326 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
A/DWILMINGTON APP/DEP121.400
AWOSAWOS 3124.475
UNICCTAF/UNICOM123.000