Tellico Plains Municipal
85TN · Tellico Plains, Tennessee · Monroe County · map
Tellico Plains Municipal is a private airport owned by the Town of Tellico Plains, 1 mile north of Tellico Plains, Tennessee, 980 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,000 feet of asphalt and grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 85TN
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Tellico Plains
- Elevation
- 980 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- August 2013
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,000 × 35 ft | Asphalt and grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 05: brush on the approach
- Runway 23: brush 5 ft high 10 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Tellico Plains from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Tellico Plains, Tennessee: 9 piston singles, 1 helicopter. 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 Tennessee.
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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only.
- Runway 05/23 500 feet grass on runway 05 end, 1500 feet asphalt, and 1000 feet grass on runway 23 end.
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.