Big Sky Airport
AL93 · Huntsville, Alabama · Madison County · map
Big Sky Airport is a private airport, 12 miles northwest of Huntsville, Alabama, 830 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,000 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 AL93
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 830 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1992
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,000 × 80 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 400 ft, trees 60 ft high 400 ft from the end
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 (8 nm east), Fayetteville Municipal (13 nm northeast), Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field (15 nm south), Pryor Field Regional (18 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Hazel Green Airport (4 nm northeast), Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field (8 nm east), Fayetteville Municipal (13 nm northeast), Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field (15 nm south).
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
- Provide all operations in VFR weather conditions, limited to pvt use.
- Runway 36 thrd marked with cones.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Huntsville from the FAA register
207 aircraft are registered to owners in Huntsville, Alabama: 143 piston singles, 17 drones, 13 turboprops, 12 piston twins, 6 business jets. 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:
- 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.
Repair stations in Huntsville:
- Axxeum INC Axxeum is a full-spectrum aviation services provider headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, with an FAA Part 145 certified repair station at Huntsville International Airport.
- Basf Mobile Emissions Catalysts, LLC
- Ppg Industries INC
- Revolution Geosystems LLC
- Sci Technology INC
- Science and Engineering Services INC
- Tyonek Services Group INC
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 Huntsville 207 aircraft · 143 piston singles, 17 drones, 13 turboprops
- University of Alabama In Huntsville 9 aircraft in town
- Aerovironment INC 5 aircraft in town
- Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC 3 aircraft in town
- Acme Aerosports INC 3 aircraft in town
- Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity 17 aircraft · flying club
- Axxeum INC · repair station
- Basf Mobile Emissions Catalysts, LLC · repair station
- Ppg Industries INC · repair station
- Revolution Geosystems LLC · repair station
- 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 4,342 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/AL93.json.
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 27, 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.