Okemah Municipal
F81 · Okemah, Oklahoma · Okfuskee County · map
Okemah Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Okemah, 2 miles south of Okemah, Oklahoma, 876 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,400 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 700 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F81
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Okemah
- Elevation
- 876 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1946
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,400 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: trees 24 ft high 384 ft from the end
- Runway 36: tree 26 ft high 610 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 700, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Okemah from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Okemah, Oklahoma: 1 piston single, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Oklahoma.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Established prior to 1959.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - 122.9
- 13 feet tree 148 feet from approach end runway 18 104 feet L of centerline.
- 12 feet tree 77 feet from approach end runway 36 134 feet L of centerline.
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.