Camden Municipal
61A · Camden, Alabama · Wilcox County · map
Camden Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Camden, 3 miles southwest of Camden, Alabama, 143 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,303 feet of asphalt. It has 3 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,248 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 61A
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Camden
- Elevation
- 143 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1964
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,303 × 80 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 9 ft high 270 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 12 ft high 387 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Montgomery and center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.55 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,248, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Camden from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Camden, Alabama: 6 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, 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
- VFR operations only.
- Activate PAPI runway 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway surface treatment has faded/streaked thrut runway pavement surfaces.
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.