Flying X Ranch Airport
5AL3 · Montevallo, Alabama · Shelby County · map
Flying X Ranch Airport is a private airport, 3 miles north of Montevallo, Alabama, 466 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,500 feet of grass.
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 5AL3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 466 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,500 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 17: tree 4 ft high 1 ft from the end
- Runway 35: tree 57 ft high 600 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Shelby County (4 nm northeast), Bessemer Ntl Airport (10 nm north), Chilton County (22 nm southeast), Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (25 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Shelby County (4 nm northeast), Bessemer Ntl Airport (10 nm north), Chilton County (22 nm southeast), Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International (25 nm north).
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
- Lake east side of runway, road perpendicular to south end.
- Power line along road at south end,unlighted and unmrkd.
- Land at your own risk.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Montevallo from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Montevallo, Alabama: 2 piston singles. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Alabama.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Slipstream Aviation LLC 9 aircraft · Calera, 6 miles away Slipstream Aviation is a Part 61 flight school based at West Georgia Regional Airport in Carrollton, Georgia.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
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
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Montevallo 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- Slipstream Aviation LLC 9 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Alabama 1,210 since 1982 · 172 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alabama 85 landing places
- Alabama 4,348 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5AL3.json.
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 29, 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.