Charles W Baker Airport
2M8 · Millington, Tennessee · Shelby County · map
Charles W Baker Airport is a public-use airport owned by Memphis Shelby CO Arpt Auth, 4 miles southwest of Millington, Tennessee, 247 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,499 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 99 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 28,250 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 2M8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Memphis Shelby CO Arpt Auth
- Elevation
- 247 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Wednesday to Saturday, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1949
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,499 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18U/36U | 1,600 × 75 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 73 ft high 1,408 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, tree 55 ft high 981 ft from the end
- Runway 18U: tree 30 ft high 475 ft from the end
- Runway 36U: trees 96 ft high 1,500 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach | 125.8 | |
| Departure | 124.15 | |
| 2M8 AWOS-3PT | 119.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 901-873-0903.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 28,250, 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 Millington from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Millington, Tennessee: 14 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 business jets, 1 turboprop. 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 Tennessee.
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
- VFR only.
- Fixed wing grass area takeoff or landing NA.
- Unatndd thanksgiving and christmas.
- Closed indef.
- Power line 970 feet from runway end; marked with orange balls.
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.