Airports · Alabama · airfield · FAA file effective October 1, 2026

Shoals Creek

AL46 · Florence, Alabama · Lauderdale County · map

Shoals Creek is a private airfield, 8 miles southwest of Florence, Alabama, 510 feet above sea level. It has 3 water landing areas. It has fuel (100LL avgas).

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

The airport

Codes: FAA AL46
Kind: Airfield · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 510 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel: 100LL avgas
On the chart: Atlanta sectional
Magnetic variation: 0E
In the FAA's files since: October 1984

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 3

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

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface
17W/35W	11,000 × 1,100 ft	Water
08W/26W	6,500 × 1,000 ft	Water
02W/20W	6,200 × 1,200 ft	Water

Aircraft registered in Florence from the FAA register

61 aircraft are registered to owners in Florence, Alabama: 45 piston singles, 8 drones, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airfield; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airfield alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Rival Drone Works LLC 6

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this airfield NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airfield.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Northwest Alabama Regional MSL · 10 nm south Courtland Airport 9A4 · 19 nm southeast Lawrenceburg/Lawrence County (Fleeman Field) 2M2 · 26 nm northeast Bill Pugh Field M22 · 28 nm south Segars Field 15M · 30 nm west Wilson Creek Airport 0AL9 · 4 nm southwest · private North Alabama Medical Center Heliport 40AL · 7 nm southwest · private Shoals Hospital Heliport AL53 · 10 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

VFR, pvt use only.
Use caution; may be boats in the area.

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.