Thigpen Field
00M · Bay Springs, Mississippi · Jasper County · map
Thigpen Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Bay Springs, 3 miles southeast of Bay Springs, Mississippi, 351 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,000 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 00M
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Bay Springs
- Elevation
- 351 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,000 × 50 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: tree 65 ft high 1,980 ft from the end
- Runway 34: trees 165 ft high 4,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Bay Springs from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Bay Springs, Mississippi: 1 piston single. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Pilots must provide their own tiedown ropes.
- Trees on east and west sides of runway violate transitional surface.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.