Covington Municipal
M04 · Covington, Tennessee · Tipton County · map
Covington Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Covington, 3 miles northeast of Covington, Tennessee, 280 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 5,003 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 39 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 13,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA M04
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Covington
- Elevation
- 280 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1958
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,003 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 76 ft high 1,763 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, four lights on the left, pole 42 ft high 1,157 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Approach | 125.8 | |
| Approach (secondary) | 120.075 | |
| Departure | 124.15 | |
| M04 and aWOS-3 | 118.575 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 901-476-1705.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 13,000, 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.
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 Covington from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Covington, Tennessee: 13 piston singles, 2 gliders, 2 drones, 2 balloons, 1 turboprop. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 1 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
- Agricultural operations on and in the vicinity of airport may 1 - oct 31.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Unatndd all federal holidays.
- Ctn: wip; mowing and maintenance vehicles.
- Fuel 24 hour self service with credit card.
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.