Roy Wilcox Airport
5R1 · Chatom, Alabama · Washington County · map
Roy Wilcox Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Chatom, 3 miles east of Chatom, Alabama, 166 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 4,002 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5R1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Chatom
- Elevation
- 166 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1964
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,002 × 80 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: threshold displaced 200 ft
- Runway 30: trees 57 ft high 784 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Mobile and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.65 |
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Aircraft registered in Chatom from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Chatom, Alabama: 4 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alabama.
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
- Before FAA act.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runway.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 operates dusk to dawn.
- Runway 12 approach ratio 27:1 from displaced threshold.
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.