Lonesome Pine Airport is a public

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

located three miles (5 km) northeast of the

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

(CBD) of Wise, a town in Wise County,

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

, United States. This

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airport covers and has one

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. It was once served with commercial airline service on

Appalachian Airlines Appalachian Airlines was a US commuter airline that operated out of northeast Tennessee. It was founded in 1977 as Appalachian Flying Service, and ceased its operations in 1980. At one time, the airline operated a fleet of seven Piper Navajo airc ...

. Currently, LNP plays host to an annual airshow, "Wings over Wise."

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