Corning Municipal
4M9 · Corning, Arkansas · Clay County · map
Corning Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Corning, 3 miles west of Corning, Arkansas, 293 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,299 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 20 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 33,150 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4M9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Corning
- Elevation
- 293 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; Saturday, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm; Sunday, unattndd
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,299 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 20 ft high 675 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 11 ft high 510 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| 4M9 AWOS-3T | 118.325 | |
| Walnut Ridge Center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.075 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3T), by phone 870-857-9702.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 33,150, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Corning from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Corning, Arkansas: 9 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 2 piston twins. 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 Arkansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36; PAPI runway 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; and taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service 100LL and jet a available 24 hours with credit card.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.