Airports · Alabama · seaplane base · FAA file effective October 29, 2026

Shoals Creek Seaplane Base

AL46 · Florence, Alabama · Lauderdale County · map

Shoals Creek Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 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 seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes: FAA AL46
Kind: Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 510 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: 100LL avgas; the services card below
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

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: 100LL avgas

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Northwest Alabama Regional (10 nm south), Lawrenceburg/Lawrence County (Fleeman Field) (26 nm northeast), Bill Pugh Field (28 nm south), Abernathy Field (30 nm northeast).

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

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

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

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 seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.

Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:

Rival Drone Works LLC 6

Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Alabama.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base

Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.

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

Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Florence 61 aircraft · 45 piston singles, 8 drones, 3 business jets
Rival Drone Works LLC 6 aircraft in town

Record

Accidents and incidents in Alabama 1,210 since 1982 · 172 in the last ten years

Around it

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

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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.