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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

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
On the chart: Atlanta sectional
Magnetic variation: 1W
In the FAA's files since: February 1992

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
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

Aircraft registered in Huntsville from the FAA register

205 aircraft are registered to owners in Huntsville, Alabama: 142 piston singles, 17 drones, 13 turboprops, 11 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:

University of Alabama In Huntsville 9 Aerovironment INC 5 Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC 3Acme Aerosports INC 3Torch Technologies INC 2Tdm Aviation LLC 2Science and Engineering Services LLC 2Louises Properties LLC 2Gsh of Alabama 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

Hazel Green Airport M38 · 4 nm northeast Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field MDQ · 8 nm east Fayetteville Municipal FYM · 13 nm northeast Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field HSV · 15 nm south Moontown Airport 3M5 · 15 nm southeast Pryor Field Regional DCU · 18 nm southwest Abernathy Field GZS · 23 nm northwest Crestwood Medical Center Fsed Heliport 9AL9 · 3 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Provide all operations in VFR weather conditions, limited to pvt use.
Runway 36 thrd marked with cones.

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.