Porter Airport
5MS3 · Columbia, Mississippi · Marion County · map
Porter Airport is a private airport, 5 miles south of Columbia, Mississippi, 158 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,000 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 5MS3
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 158 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1999
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,000 × 60 ft | Grass |
- Runway 09: trees 50 ft high 750 ft from the end
- Runway 27: trees 50 ft high 750 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Columbia/Marion County (7 nm north), George R Carr Memorial Air Field (22 nm south), Hattiesburg Bobby L Chain Municipal (29 nm east), Hattiesburg/Laurel Regional (30 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Columbia/Marion County (7 nm north), Paul Pittman Memorial (19 nm west), George R Carr Memorial Air Field (22 nm south), Prentiss-Jefferson Davis County (26 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 Mississippi · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR, pvt use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Columbia from the FAA register
28 aircraft are registered to owners in Columbia, Mississippi: 23 piston singles, 3 business jets, 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
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 Columbia 28 aircraft · 23 piston singles, 3 business jets, 2 piston twins
- Southern Tire Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Shepard Brothers LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Mississippi 844 since 1982 · 89 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Mississippi 80 landing places
- Mississippi 2,602 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5MS3.json.
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 27, 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.