Metropolis Municipal
M30 · Metropolis, Illinois · Massac County · map
Metropolis Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Metropolis, 2 miles northwest of Metropolis, Illinois, 384 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 14 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 13,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA M30
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Metropolis
- Elevation
- 384 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irreg
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,002 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| M30 and aWOS-3 | 124.175 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 618-524-7483.
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
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Aircraft registered in Metropolis from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Metropolis, Illinois: 7 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 drone. 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 Illinois.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Avoid factory located 4000 feet southwest of runway 18/36.
- Self service fuel available 24 hours 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.