Jeremiah Denton Airport
4R9 · Dauphin Island, Alabama · Mobile County · map
Jeremiah Denton Airport is a public-use airport owned by Mobile County in Dauphin Island, Alabama, 5 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,000 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 3,650 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 4R9
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Mobile County
- Elevation
- 5 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,000 × 80 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 202 ft
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the right, threshold displaced 140 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,650, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Dauphin Island from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Dauphin Island, Alabama: 1 piston single, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alabama.
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
- VFR only.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Activate PAPI runway 12 and 30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Approach slope 50:1 to displaced threshold.
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.