Diamondhead Airport
66Y · Diamondhead, Mississippi · Hancock County · map
Diamondhead Airport is a public-use airport in Diamondhead, Mississippi, 14 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,800 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 66Y
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 14 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1979
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,800 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 613 ft, trees 44 ft high 570 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Diamondhead from the FAA register
34 aircraft are registered to owners in Diamondhead, Mississippi: 30 piston singles, 3 balloons, 1 piston twin. 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 Mississippi.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR use only, airport traffic patterns are established on east side of runway and runway centerline extended.
- Wildlife in the vicinity of runway.
- Diamondhead country club and property owners association.
- Fuel available 24 hours with credit card.
- Sand perimeter road 88 feet from runway end; +2 lighted fence 123 feet from runway end.
- Low-intensity runway lights dthr bar and lights located 423 feet south of pavement end.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to dthr.
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.