Franklin Field
07A · Union Springs, Alabama · Bullock County · map
Franklin Field is a public-use airport owned by Bullock County, 5 miles west of Union Springs, Alabama, 301 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 5,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 10 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,545 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 07A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Bullock County
- Elevation
- 301 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
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 5,002 × 80 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: tree 102 ft high 2,170 ft from the end
- Runway 32: tree 79 ft high 1,259 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.2 | |
| Montgomery and center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.55 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,545, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Union Springs from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Union Springs, Alabama: 3 piston singles. 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 · 1 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 use only.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 14/32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Thomas main or cope lawrence.
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.