Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field
HSV · KHSV · Huntsville, Alabama · Madison County · map
Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field is a public-use airport owned by Huntsville Madison County, 9 miles southwest of Huntsville, Alabama, 629 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18R/36L, is 12,600 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 85 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 60,475 takeoffs and landings a year. About 787,990 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
No SIGMET or AIRMET covers this field right now.
2 pilot reports within 100 nautical miles in the last three hours:
- CL60 at 1,800 ft, 81 nm east, 10:21 am CDT (15:21 UTC): overcast above 1,800 ft, mist.
as filed, and in English
CHA UA /OV CHA 4N/TM 1521/FL018/TP CL60/SK OVC018/WX 1 1/2SM BR
- Report
- a routine report filed through CHA
- Where
- cha 4N
- Time
- 15:21 UTC
- Height
- at 1,800 ft
- Aircraft
- CL60
- Sky
- overcast from 1,800 ft
- Weather
- 1, 1/2SM, mist
- P28A at 1,000 ft, 81 nm east, 10:01 am CDT (15:01 UTC): no turbulence, no icing, overcast above 1,000 ft.
as filed, and in English
CHA UA /OV CHA 1N/TM 1501/FL010/TP P28A/SK OVC010/WX 1SM/TB NEG/IC NEG
- Report
- a routine report filed through CHA
- Where
- cha 1N
- Time
- 15:01 UTC
- Height
- at 1,000 ft
- Aircraft
- P28A
- Sky
- overcast from 1,000 ft
- Weather
- 1SM
- Turbulence
- none
- Icing
- none
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (ATL, 131 nm southeast), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 340° at 24 kt; 6,000 ft: 350° at 18 kt, 17 °C; 9,000 ft: 330° at 15 kt, 11 °C; 12,000 ft: 320° at 20 kt, 6 °C; 18,000 ft: 310° at 16 kt, -4 °C.
No temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles.
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
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.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HSV · ICAO KHSV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Huntsville Madison County
- Elevation
- 629 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1964
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18R/36L | 12,600 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, excellent | High-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 10,001 × 150 ft | Asphalt, excellent | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 18R: ILS, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36L: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 18L: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 9,801 ft available for landing
- Runway 36R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 200 ft, 9,801 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 127.6 | Huntsville |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Hsv and automated weather (ASOS) | 121.25 | Huntsville |
| Clearance delivery | 120.35 | Huntsville |
| Ground | 121.9 | Huntsville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 185 to 004 | 118.05 | Huntsville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 005 to 184 | 125.6 | Huntsville |
| Approach (secondary) | 118.75 | Huntsville |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Huntsville |
| Huntsville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.8 | Huntsville |
| Huntsville and rco | 122.2 | Huntsville |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 256-207-5925.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aerial surveying
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Pryor Field Regional (8 nm west), Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field (17 nm northeast), Cullman Rgnl/Folsom Field (23 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18L, 36L and 36R; high-intensity runway lights runway 18L/36R and 18R/36L - the common traffic frequency. Runway 18R alsf on step 2 when the control tower closed.
- Airport authority
- Obstruction clnc slope 50:1 at displaced threshold.
- Intersection of taxiway J and service road is uncontrolled.
- Line up and wait NA.
- Flight notification service (adcus) available.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 15,103 departures from HSV in those twelve months, carrying 890,995 passengers in 1,103,922 seats (81% filled), to 100 destinations (12 abroad) on 23 airlines.
All 100 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 63 |
| multi-engine | 15 |
| jets | 6 |
| other | 1 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 60,475, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 15,577 |
| air taxi and commuter | 12,636 |
| general aviation, travelling | 12,360 |
| general aviation, local | 4,116 |
| military | 15,786 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Huntsville from the FAA register
206 aircraft are registered to owners in Huntsville, Alabama: 142 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 in Huntsville, by their names on the register:
- University of Alabama In Huntsville 9 aircraft The University of Alabama in Huntsville is a public research university in Huntsville, Alabama, offering 115 degree programs including options in aviation and avionics.
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 Revolution Geosystems operates a specialized fleet of survey aircraft for aerial data acquisition including aerial photography, photogrammetry, and lidar collection.
- Sci Technology INC SCI Technology, Inc.
- Science and Engineering Services INC
- Tyonek Services Group INC Tyonek Services Group Inc, a subsidiary of Tyonek Native Corporation, operates FAA Part 145 repair stations in Huntsville, Alabama and Kiln, Mississippi.
Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
4 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 4 for private pilot, 4 for commercial and instrument, 3 for airline transport pilot, 3 for flight instructor, 1 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 3 for airplanes, 2 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for helicopters. Also nearby: 1 sport aviation examiner, 7 aviation medical examiners, 1 mechanic examiner.
- Max Peter Gurgew private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, type ratings, instructor renewals; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Huntsville, AL (0 nm) · (256) 509-3866 · mgurgew@comcast.net
- Timothy Phillip Knueven private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, commercial pilot; helicopters · Brownsboro, AL (15 nm) · (352) 874-9768 · tpknueven@gmail.com
- Edward H Blount private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Albertville Aviation · Albertville, AL (36 nm) · (205) 616-2027 · eblount3614@gmail.com
- Catherine Elizabeth Cavagnaro private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · Winchester, TN (48 nm) · (931) 636-8678 · catherine@aceaerobaticschool.com
All 13 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 5 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Huntsville 206 aircraft · 142 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
- University of Alabama In Huntsville 9 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Axxeum INC · repair station
- Basf Mobile Emissions Catalysts, LLC · repair station
- Ppg Industries INC · repair station
- Revolution Geosystems LLC · repair station
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International (ATL) 2,765 flights in twelve months · Delta Air Lines Inc., Endeavor Air Inc.
- Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW) 1,995 flights in twelve months · Envoy Air, PSA Airlines Inc.
- Charlotte/Douglas International (CLT) 1,843 flights in twelve months · Piedmont Airlines, PSA Airlines Inc.
- Chicago O'Hare International (ORD) 1,516 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc., GoJet Airlines LLC d/b/a United Express
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston (IAH) 1,449 flights in twelve months · CommuteAir LLC dba CommuteAir, SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 1,267 flights in twelve months · PSA Airlines Inc., Envoy Air
- Washington Dulles International (IAD) 1,046 flights in twelve months · CommuteAir LLC dba CommuteAir, CFM Inc d/b/a Contour Airlines d/b/a One Jet Shuttle
- Denver International (DEN) 726 flights in twelve months · SkyWest Airlines Inc.
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 12 since 1982 · 5 fatal
- 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 4,322 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/HSV.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 9, 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.