Frank Sikes Airport
04A · Luverne, Alabama · Crenshaw County · map
Frank Sikes Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Luverne, 2 miles north of Luverne, Alabama, 302 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 4,649 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 04A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Luverne
- Elevation
- 302 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1963
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 4,649 × 80 ft | Asphalt, poor | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 742 ft, tree 75 ft high 972 ft from the end
- Runway 22: threshold displaced 875 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Luverne from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Luverne, Alabama: 2 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 business jet. 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 Alabama.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- VFR only.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency.
- SELF-SERVE
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; first 750 feet runway 04 and first 875 feet of runway 22 unlighted.
- 480 feet above sea level water tower south of runway 22.
- Runway 04 approach ratio 13:1 from displaced thld.
- Runway 22 approach ratio 15:1 from displaced threshold.
- Wdspr cracking on runway 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.