Stennis International
HSA · KHSA · Bay St Louis, Mississippi · Hancock County · map
Stennis International is a public-use airport owned by Hancock CO Port & Harbor Cmsn, 8 miles northwest of Bay St Louis, Mississippi, 23 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 8,498 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KHSA · observed 3:50 pm CDT (20:50 UTC), 30 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northeast (030°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: scattered clouds at 3,300 feet
- Temperature 84°F (29°C), dew point 70°F (21°C)
- Altimeter 29.88 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KHSA 062050Z 03006KT 10SM SCT033 29/21 A2988
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HSA · ICAO KHSA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Hancock CO Port & Harbor Cmsn
- Elevation
- 23 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm; weekends, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 8,498 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 40 ft high 2,100 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, trees 55 ft high 2,100 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 127.15 | Stennis |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Ground | 121.725 | Stennis |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 130 to 309 | 124.6 | Stennis |
| Approach and departure arriving from headings 310 to 129 | 127.5 | Stennis |
| Hsa and aWOS-3PT | 118.375 | |
| Mobile and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.65 | Stennis |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 228-466-9320.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Bay St Louis from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Bay St Louis, MS as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18; runway end identifier lights runway 36; PAPI runway 18 and 36; high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Nmrs low flying fish spotter aircraft operations near shoreline between gulfport and Bay state. Louis.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Avoid flying ovr schools.4 NM east of runway 18/36 when poss.
- The FBO (fixed-base operator) atndd MON-FRI 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, SAT-SUN 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.
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.