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Bonham Airport

AL40 · Birmingham, Alabama · Jefferson County · map

Bonham Airport is a private airport, 6 miles west of Birmingham, Alabama, 600 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 1,500 feet of grass and gravel.

The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.

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

The airport

Codes: FAA AL40
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 600 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
On the chart: Atlanta sectional
Magnetic variation: 0E
In the FAA's files since: November 1982

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
01/19	1,500 × 15 ft	Grass and gravel

Runway 01: power line 50 ft high 25 ft from the end
Runway 19: power line 50 ft high 300 ft from the end

Aircraft registered in Birmingham from the FAA register

214 aircraft are registered to owners in Birmingham, Alabama: 109 piston singles, 60 business jets, 17 piston twins, 11 turboprops, 6 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:

Airmed International LLC 9Birmingham Flight Center LLC 4Transport Services LLC 3Southern Company Services INC 3Central Alabama Soaring Association 3Blue Skies Alabama LLC 3Avion LLC 3Thompson Tractor CO INC 2Team Financial INC 2Stewart Aviation Services LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Alabama.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International BHM · 12 nm east Bessemer Ntl Airport EKY · 14 nm south Shelby County EET · 24 nm southeast Walker County/Bevill Field JFX · 27 nm northwest Baptist Medical Center-Princeton Heliport AL50 · 7 nm east · private Sheriff'S Trng Cntr Heliport 65AL · 7 nm northeast · private The Childrens Hospital Heliport AL91 · 9 nm east · private University Of Alabama Hospital Heliport AL38 · 9 nm east · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

VFR; private use only.
Also, hill on both ends of runway.

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.