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Whetstone Airport

11AZ · Huachuca City, Arizona · Cochise County · map

Whetstone Airport is a private airport, 3 miles northeast of Huachuca City, Arizona, 4,250 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 3,850 feet of grass and dirt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 11AZ
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 4,250 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: around the clock
Parking: hangar
On the chart: Phoenix sectional
In the FAA's files since: September 1975

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
08/26	3,850 × 150 ft	Grass and dirt, poor

Runway 08: fence 4 ft high 50 ft from the end
Runway 26: right-hand traffic pattern, fence 4 ft high 50 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Huachuca City from the FAA register

7 aircraft are registered to owners in Huachuca City, Arizona: 5 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 helicopter. 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 Arizona.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Sierra Vista Muni-Libby Army Airfield FHU · 6 nm southwest Tombstone Municipal P29 · 14 nm east Benson Muni/Paul Kerchum Field E95 · 19 nm north Bisbee Municipal P04 · 28 nm southeast Four Pillars Airport AZ21 · 4 nm northeast · private Sierra Vista Regional Health Center Heliport AZ89 · 8 nm south · private Skyline Air Ranch Airport 1AZ6 · 12 nm southeast · private Fort Omotse Heliport 4AZ4 · 12 nm southeast · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

E111 VFR; private use.
Not mntnd.
Brush both ends.
Drone (UAV) and military operations north and south.

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.