Lafayette Municipal
3M7 · Lafayette, Tennessee · Macon County · map
Lafayette Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lafayette, 2 miles west of Lafayette, Tennessee, 969 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 5,200 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3M7
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lafayette
- Elevation
- 969 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm; Saturday, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,200 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, 5,000 ft available for landing, tree 109 ft high 2,300 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, 5,000 ft available for landing, tree 37 ft high 1,016 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Allln and star · Approach and departure · Jning and star | 118.4 | |
| Preds and star | 119.35 | |
| 3M7 AWOS-3PT | 120.85 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Lafayette from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Lafayette, Tennessee: 10 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter, 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 Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 1 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 operations only.
- Credit card service H24 available.
- 25:1 from dthr.
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.