Tucson International
TUS · KTUS · Tucson, Arizona · Pima County · map
Tucson International is a public-use airport owned by Tucson Airport Authority, 6 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, 2,643 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 10,996 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives) and about 416 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 121,782 takeoffs and landings a year. About 1,981,058 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KTUS · observed 7:53 am MST (14:53 UTC), 44 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (170°) at 10 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a broken layer at 9,500 feet
- Temperature 75°F (24°C), dew point 61°F (16°C)
- Altimeter 29.81 inHg
The forecast issued Sun 4:20 am MST (11:20 UTC), good until Mon 5:00 am MST (12:00 UTC)
- From Sun 5:00 am MST (12:00 UTC): wind from the southeast at 10 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, scattered clouds at 5,000 feet VFR
- From Sun 9:00 am MST (16:00 UTC): wind from the south-southwest at 20 knots, gusting to 30, visibility more than 6 miles, scattered clouds at 5,000 feet, a broken layer at 10,000 feet VFR
- From Sun 7:00 pm MST (02:00 UTC): wind from the southwest at 9 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, a broken layer at 10,000 feet VFR
- From Mon 12:00 am MST (07:00 UTC): wind from the south-southeast at 5 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, scattered clouds at 10,000 feet VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KTUS 111453Z 17010KT 10SM BKN095 24/16 A2981 RMK AO2 SLP055 T02390161 53015
TAF KTUS 111120Z 1112/1212 14010KT P6SM SCT050 FM111600 21020G30KT P6SM SCT050 BKN100 FM120200 23009KT P6SM BKN100 FM120700 16005KT P6SM SCT100
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The airport
- Codes
- FAA TUS · ICAO KTUS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Tucson Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 2,643 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives; the services card below
- Notes
- customs available · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Phoenix sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1941
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 10,996 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 04/22 | 7,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 30: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, gnd 8 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 850 ft, 6,150 ft available for landing, rr 21 ft high 270 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, 6,000 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 123.8 | Tucson |
| Clearance delivery | 126.65 | Tucson |
| Ground | 120.025 | Tucson |
| Tower | 118.3 | Tucson |
| Tower (secondary) | 119.0 | Tucson |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace · Dingo and star Runway 30 066-274 tus; Runway 12 286-089 tus | 119.4 | Tucson |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BURRO) · Class C airspace Runway 12 090-285 tus; Runway 30 275-065 tus | 125.1 | Tucson |
| Approach (secondary) | 128.5 | Tucson |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Tucson |
| Tucson and rco | 122.2 | Tucson |
| Base and operations | 140.55 | Tucson |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 520-355-5542.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 160 |
| multi-engine | 14 |
| jets | 161 |
| helicopters | 8 |
| other | 73 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 121,782, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 40,862 |
| air taxi and commuter | 22,296 |
| general aviation, travelling | 30,540 |
| general aviation, local | 12,472 |
| military | 15,612 |
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.
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 Tucson from the FAA register
735 aircraft are registered to owners in Tucson, Arizona: 556 piston singles, 43 piston twins, 27 gliders, 25 business jets, 25 balloons. 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 Arizona.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales, aerial surveying
- Notes
- customs available
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Ryan Field (12 nm west), Marana Regional (22 nm northwest), Benson Muni/Paul Kerchum Field (31 nm east).
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 Arizona · avgas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Tucson, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
- Aviation Hangar Foam Specialists LLC
- Fios Flightline LLC FlightLine Technologies operates a fully managed fractional aircraft co-ownership program for owner-pilots in the United States.
- Nachio Aviation Services LLC
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in Tucson, by their names on the register:
- Arizona Flyers Club INC 3 aircraft Arizona Flyers Club is a flying club based at Tucson International Airport in Arizona.
- University of Arizona 3 aircraft The University of Arizona is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona, with 20 colleges offering over 150 majors and degree programs.
- Flyers Unlimited LLC 1 aircraft
Charter operators and airlines based in Tucson:
- Eagle Aviation, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate Double Eagle Aviation is a Part 61 flight school based at Ryan Airfield in Tucson, Arizona.
Repair stations in Tucson (12 of 19, all of them):
- Aircraft Inspection & Management, LLC
- Airtronics, INC
- Amentum Services, INC
- American Turbo Systems
- Ascent Aviation Services LLC
- Astrodyne International INC
- Bae Systems Technology Solutions & Services INC
- Cappsco International Corporation A Midwest Compan
- Honeywell Aerospace US LLC - Tucson R&O
- Instrument Services INC
- James B. Geist
- Learjet INC
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: 6 for private pilot, 4 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 2 for flight instructor, 2 for sport pilot; 5 for airplanes, 2 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for seaplanes, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 2 sport aviation examiners, 3 aviation medical examiners, 5 mechanic examiners, 1 airworthiness representative (maintenance), 4 engineering representatives, 2 parachute rigger examiners, 19 training center evaluators, 1 training center examiner.
- Benjamin John Braff private pilot; airplanes · Tucson Jet Center · Tucson, AZ (12 nm) · (952) 452-0254 · ben.braff@gmail.com
- Clair Morris private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot; airplanes · Arizona Aero-Tech- KRYN · Tucson, AZ (12 nm) · (520) 560-3963 · fr8pilot88@gmail.com
- Kimberly Brown private pilot, commercial and instrument; airplanes · Tucson, AZ (12 nm) · (520) 404-9293 · kim.schiff1@gmail.com
- Robert Owsley private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes · Arizona Aero Tech · Tucson, AZ (12 nm) · (817) 239-7171 · bob.owsley@gmail.com
- Steven Daniel Brimmer private pilot, commercial and instrument, military competency, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Tucson, AZ (12 nm) · (830) 719-6123 · carib2steve@yahoo.com
- Charles Edwin Schroll private pilot, flight instructor, commercial pilot; gliders · Marana, AZ (22 nm) · (520) 360-7672 · cschroll@yahoo.com
All 43 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).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DPRE: Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner: tests candidates for the parachute rigger certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- 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.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 57 since 1982, 3 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Ctn: northwest arrival and departure do not mistake taxiway a for landing surface; taxiway a north and parl to runway 30.
- Pattern altitude 800 feet above ground level small aircraft; 1400 feet above ground level large/heavy turbojet aircraft.
- BAK-14 BAK-12B(B) (1500).
- BAK-14 BAK-12B(B) (1000).
- BAK-14 BAK-12(B) (1215) hook bak 12B(B) (128 ovrn).
- Fixed wing jet vstol/vtol operations NA. dstc rmng mkrs northeast side.
- Exceeds 200 feet spacing at taxiway intersection on north and south side of runway.
- Ctn: ensure departure runway; do not mistake for demol runway.
- Ptns taxiway D not visibility from the control tower.
- Group V tax with inboard eng only. Terminal ramp closed to adg IV and above WO prior permission required.
- A gear - BAK-14 BAK-12B approach end runway 12, BAK-14 BAK-12B approach end runway 30 and BAK-14 BAK-12B approach end runway 22 available durg ang duty hour: 5 minimum PN.
- Taxiway A5 ltd 70000 LB or less.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Tucson 735 aircraft · 556 piston singles, 43 piston twins, 27 gliders
- Wind Walker LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Swede Aviation LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Eagle Aviation INC 5 aircraft in town
- Aerial Productions International INC 5 aircraft in town
- Aviation Hangar Foam Specialists LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Fios Flightline LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Nachio Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Eagle Aviation, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Arizona Flyers Club INC 3 aircraft · flying club
- University of Arizona 3 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Flyers Unlimited LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Aircraft Inspection & Management, LLC · repair station
- Airtronics, INC · repair station
- Amentum Services, INC · repair station
- American Turbo Systems · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 57 since 1982 · 3 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Arizona 2,983 since 1982 · 468 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Arizona 77 landing places
- Arizona 8,395 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TUS.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.