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
- 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
- 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
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Mississippi.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Provided VFR, pvt use.
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.