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Short Creek Airport

8TN7 · Dover, Tennessee · Stewart County · map

Short Creek Airport is a private airport, 10 miles southwest of Dover, Tennessee, 390 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 2,560 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes
FAA 8TN7
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
390 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
On the chart
St Louis sectional
Magnetic variation
1W

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0725N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
07/252,560 × 30 ftGrass

Aircraft registered in Dover from the FAA register

6 aircraft are registered to owners in Dover, Tennessee: 5 piston singles, 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 Tennessee.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 1 fatal

2012-03-15ERA12CA232 · Piper Pa-28R-180 N3779T · accident · no injuries
2004-06-12ATL04CA129 · Cessna 172N N5153E · accident · no injuries
2003-06-14ATL03FA125 · Bellanca 7Kcab N68551 · accident · 2 killed

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, pvt use.
  • 1100 feet above sea level radio tower 2 MI east 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.