Charleston Municipal
09M · Charleston, Mississippi · Tallahatchie County · map
Charleston Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Charleston, 2 miles south of Charleston, Mississippi, 175 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,000 feet of asphalt. It has about 4 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,700 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 09M
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Charleston
- Elevation
- 175 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,000 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: tree 20 ft high 220 ft from the end
- Runway 36: pole 48 ft high 825 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,700, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Charleston from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Charleston, Mississippi: 4 piston singles, 2 turboprops. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
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
- Spl agrmt.
- Pilots must provide their own tiedown ropes.
- 7 feet wildlife fence 197 feet from end of runway 18 xng centerline.
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.