Horseshoe Bend Airport
6M2 · Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas · Izard County · map
Horseshoe Bend Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Horsehoe Bend, 1 mile northeast of Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas, 782 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,502 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 6M2
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Horsehoe Bend
- Elevation
- 782 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1964
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,502 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: threshold displaced 994 ft, trees 110 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 32 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Walnut Ridge Center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.075 |
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Aircraft registered in Horseshoe Bend from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas: 1 piston single. 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 Arkansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Dusk to dawn activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 31 operates continuously.
- Self serve fuel H24 with credit card.
- Rapidly rising trrn with trees fna runway 13. Trrn rises 681 feet between 200-1100 feet from runway end.
- Runway 13 takeoff recommended due to rapidly rising trrn northwest of airport.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.