Isbell Field
4A9 · Fort Payne, Alabama · De Kalb County · map
Isbell Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fort Payne, 2 miles north of Fort Payne, Alabama, 877 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 5,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4A9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fort Payne
- Elevation
- 877 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1959
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 5,001 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the left, power line 90 ft high 1,229 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the right
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| 4A9 AWOS-3PT | 119.025 | |
| Gadsden and center (remote transmitter) Low | 124.5 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 256-845-5397.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Fort Payne from the FAA register
24 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Payne, Alabama: 18 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 business jets, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. 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 Alabama.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 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
- Prior to FAA act.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 4/22 preset low intst, to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency. Runway end identifier lights runway 04 and 22 activate - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 04 and 22 operates continuously.
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.