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Mitchells Airport

3MS5 · Vaiden, Mississippi · Carroll County · map

Mitchells Airport is a private airport, 5 miles southwest of Vaiden, Mississippi, 323 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 2,500 feet of grass.

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

The airport

Codes
FAA 3MS5
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
323 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
every day, dawn to dusk
On the chart
Memphis sectional
Magnetic variation
1E
In the FAA's files since
June 1998

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

NSN1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
N/S2,500 × 75 ftGrass

Aircraft registered in Vaiden from the FAA register

1 aircraft are registered to owners in Vaiden, Mississippi: 1 drone. 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 Mississippi.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal

2019-07-04CEN19TA205 · Beech 23 N7618R · accident · serious injuries

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

  • Provided VFR/pvt use.
  • Cones mark runway edges
  • Frequency: 122.9

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.