Fordyce Municipal
5M4 · Fordyce, Arkansas · Dallas County · map
Fordyce Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fordyce, 3 miles northeast of Fordyce, Arkansas, 193 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,183 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and 2 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,700 takeoffs and landings a year.
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The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5M4
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fordyce
- Elevation
- 193 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,183 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: trees 60 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
- Runway 23: trees 65 ft high 850 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,700, 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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
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Aircraft registered in Fordyce from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Fordyce, Arkansas: 1 piston single. 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 Arkansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Beacon operators DUSK-0100.
- Runway 05/23 medium-intensity runway lights operators DUSK-0100.
- Fuel available 24 hour self service with credit card.
- Deer and migratory birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Fordyce 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Arkansas 1,580 since 1982 · 177 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Arkansas 101 landing places
- Arkansas 3,491 aircraft registered
These connections as data: /graph/airport/5M4.json · about the eFlight graph.
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.