Root Hog Airport
3MS3 · Flora, Mississippi · Madison County · map
Root Hog Airport is a private airport, 2 miles southwest of Flora, Mississippi, 220 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 3,500 feet of grass. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3MS3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 220 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- 100 octane avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 3,500 × 75 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: John Bell Williams Airport (13 nm south), Hawkins Field (13 nm southeast), Bruce Campbell Field (13 nm east), Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International (19 nm southeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Mississippi · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR; private use; letter of understanding between Root Hog airport and MS petrified forest airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Flora from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Flora, Mississippi: 6 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Flora 8 aircraft · 6 piston singles, 1 turboprops, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Holcomb Aerial Service 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Mississippi 844 since 1982 · 89 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Mississippi 80 landing places
- Mississippi 2,602 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/3MS3.json.
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 27, 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.