Frerichs Airport
AL10 · Gurley, Alabama · Madison County · map
Frerichs Airport is a private airport, 4 miles southwest of Gurley, Alabama, 650 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,500 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AL10
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 650 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irreg
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1988
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,500 × 60 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field (14 nm northwest), Guntersville Muni/Joe Starnes Field (17 nm southeast), Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field (18 nm west), Scottsboro Muni-Word Field (20 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Moontown Airport (6 nm north), Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field (14 nm northwest), Guntersville Muni/Joe Starnes Field (17 nm southeast), Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field (18 nm west).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Alabama · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR/personal use.
- Personal use.
- Lnd runway 09; takeoff runway 27. MT east end and large hill west end.
- Yellow runway light cones.
- Yellow runway light cones.
- Runway 27 trees, MT and pwr lines 20FT from approach end.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Gurley from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Gurley, Alabama: 6 piston singles, 2 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Alabama.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Huntsville Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Owens Cross Roads, 5 miles away
- Huntsville Soaring Club 2 aircraft · Brownsboro, 6 miles away
- Huntsville Soaring Association 1 aircraft · Brownsboro, 6 miles away
- Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity 17 aircraft · Redstone Arsenal, 14 miles away Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity is a flying club located at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama that offers flight training to authorized patrons.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Gurley 8 aircraft · 6 piston singles, 2 helicopters
- Wjt Investments LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Huntsville Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Huntsville Soaring Club 2 aircraft · flying club
- Huntsville Soaring Association 1 aircraft · flying club
- Accidents and incidents in Alabama 1,210 since 1982 · 172 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Alabama 85 landing places
- Alabama 4,349 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AL10.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.