North Pickens Airport
3M8 · Reform, Alabama · Pickens County · map
North Pickens Airport is a public-use airport owned by Pickens CO Cmsn, 1 mile north of Reform, Alabama, 237 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 5,144 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3M8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Pickens CO Cmsn
- Elevation
- 237 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
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,144 × 80 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 138 ft, trees 96 ft high 1,670 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 135.6 | |
| Columbus and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.1 |
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Aircraft registered in Reform from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Reform, Alabama: 2 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, 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
- Beacon out of service
- Activate runway end identifier lightss runway 01 and 19; medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - the common traffic frequency.
- 100LL SELF-SERVE 24/7
- 5006 feet available for night operations.
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.