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MC Gowin Field

5AL1 · Chapman, Alabama · Butler County · map

MC Gowin Field is a private airport, 2 miles east of Chapman, Alabama, 400 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,000 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).

The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.

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 5AL1
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 400 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: 100LL avgas; the services card below
On the chart: New Orleans sectional
Magnetic variation: 0E
In the FAA's files since: May 1958

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
17/35	3,000 × 100 ft	Grass

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: 100LL avgas
Repairs: none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Evergreen Rgnl/Middleton Field (24 nm southwest), South Alabama Regional AT Bill Benton Field (27 nm southeast), Troy Municipal AT N Kenneth Campbell Field (36 nm east), Monroe County Aeroplex (37 nm west).

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 Alabama · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

Existed prior to 05/15/59
Airport closed indefinitely.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Chapman from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Chapman, AL as the owner's town.

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

Mac Crenshaw Memorial PRN · 11 nm north Frank Sikes Airport 04A · 22 nm east Evergreen Rgnl/Middleton Field GZH · 24 nm southwest South Alabama Regional AT Bill Benton Field 79J · 27 nm southeast Regional Medical Cntr Of Cntrl Alabama Heliport 29AL · 9 nm north · private Heart Of Dixie Aero Estates Airport 68AL · 11 nm northeast · private Sells Airport 71AL · 11 nm northeast · private Hospital Pad Heliport 0AL3 · 20 nm southwest · private

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

Record

Accidents and incidents in Alabama 1,210 since 1982 · 172 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Alabama 85 landing places
Alabama 4,346 aircraft registered

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Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.