Walker County/Bevill Field
JFX · KJFX · Jasper, Alabama · Walker County · map
Walker County/Bevill Field is a public-use airport owned by Walker County Commission, 5 miles northwest of Jasper, Alabama, 483 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,004 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1) and about 15 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 33,616 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Weather right now KJFX · observed 11:55 am CDT (16:55 UTC), 11 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 86°F (30°C), dew point 64°F (18°C)
- Altimeter 30.15 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 KJFX 121655Z AUTO VRB06KT 10SM CLR 30/18 A3015 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT S
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.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
No SIGMET or AIRMET covers this field right now.
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (ATL, 145 nm east), 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 JFX · ICAO KJFX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Walker County Commission
- Elevation
- 483 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,004 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: VASI, four boxes on the left, 4,800 ft available for landing, trees 24 ft high 514 ft from the end
- Runway 27: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, threshold displaced 190 ft, 4,800 ft available for landing, trees 77 ft high 2,161 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| Clearance delivery · Apt Remark 2 With Gco Freq | 121.725 | · Gco available on frequency 121.725 through birmingham (bhm) clearance delivery. |
| Approach and departure | 127.675 | |
| Jfx and aWOS-3PT | 119.225 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 205-295-5539.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Also here
- flight instruction, aircraft rental
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Posey Field (27 nm northwest), Richard Arthur Field (28 nm southwest), Cullman Rgnl/Folsom Field (32 nm northeast).
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
- No outside work except emergencies.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runways.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 9 and 27; VASI runway 9 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 9/27- the common traffic frequency.
- No outside work except emergencies.
- Fuel available 24/7 with CC.
- Gco available on frequency 121.725 through birmingham (bhm) clearance delivery.
- Hvy flight student act.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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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.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 14 |
| helicopters | 1 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 33,616, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| general aviation, travelling | 28,703 |
| general aviation, local | 4,813 |
| military | 100 |
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 Jasper from the FAA register
86 aircraft are registered to owners in Jasper, Alabama: 56 piston singles, 15 piston twins, 7 helicopters, 5 business jets, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. 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 Jasper, by their names on the register:
- Sanders Flight Training Center INC 15 aircraft Sanders Flight Training Center is an FAA Part 141-certified flight school operating three locations in Alabama (Jasper, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville).
- Sanders Flight Training Center 3 aircraft Sanders Flight Training Center is an FAA Part 141-certified flight school operating three locations in Alabama (Jasper, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville).
- Sanders Flight Training Center LLC 2 aircraft Sanders Flight Training Center is an FAA Part 141-certified flight school operating three locations in Alabama (Jasper, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville).
- Sanders Flight Training INC 1 aircraft Sanders Flight Training Center is an FAA Part 141-certified flight school operating three locations in Alabama (Jasper, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville).
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
6 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, 4 for airline transport pilot, 4 for flight instructor, 2 for sport pilot, 1 for type ratings; 4 for airplanes, 4 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for seaplanes, 2 for helicopters. Also nearby: 2 sport aviation examiners, 7 aviation medical examiners, 4 engineering representatives, 1 training center examiner.
- David Lewis private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, helicopters · Jasper, AL (0 nm) · (931) 377-7502 · flightevaluation@gmail.com
- Greg Harper Muse instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates · Sanders Aviation · Jasper, AL (0 nm) · (256) 375-8012 · gregmusedpe@gmail.com
- Joseph Gordon Sanders private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, type ratings, private pilot (proficiency), instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · SANDERS AVIATION · Jasper, AL (0 nm) · (204) 913-6058 · gordo@sandersaviation.com
- William Joseph Walker private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Jasper, AL (0 nm) · (504) 228-2003 · wwalkeriii@gmail.com
- Harvey John Schwab instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates · Helena, AL (39 nm) · (205) 999-6540 · flyerhjs@gmail.com
- Fredric Mark Newman private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, commercial pilot, instructor renewals; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes, helicopters · Shelby County Airport · Calera, AL (49 nm) · (205) 527-8118 · mnewm@aol.com
All 20 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.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
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 · 9 since 1982, 2 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 Jasper 86 aircraft · 56 piston singles, 15 piston twins, 7 helicopters
- Sanders Flight Training Center INC 15 aircraft in town
- Sanders Aviation INC 7 aircraft in town
- Jasper Aviation INC 6 aircraft in town
- Sanders Racing INC 4 aircraft in town
- Sanders Flight Training Center INC 15 aircraft · flight school
- Sanders Flight Training Center 3 aircraft · flight school
- Sanders Flight Training Center LLC 2 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 9 since 1982 · 2 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/JFX.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.