Montgomery Regional (Dannelly Field)
MGM · KMGM · Montgomery, Alabama · Montgomery County · map
Montgomery Regional (Dannelly Field) is a public-use airport owned by Montgomery Airport Authority, 6 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, 221 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 10/28, is 9,020 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MGM · ICAO KMGM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Montgomery Airport Authority
- Elevation
- 221 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,200 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · 6:00 am to 11:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1987
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 9,020 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 03/21 | 4,011 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 90 × 90 ft | Concrete, fair |
- Runway 10: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, tree 35 ft high 1,990 ft from the end
- Runway 28: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), tree 65 ft high 2,800 ft from the end
- Runway 03: PAPI, four lights on the left, fence 22 ft high 700 ft from the end
- Runway 21: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 54 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.7 | Dannelly |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 120.675 | Dannelly |
| Clearance delivery | 118.3 | Dannelly |
| Ground | 121.7 | Dannelly |
| Approach and departure · Terminal radar service North | 121.2 | Maxwell |
| Approach and departure · Terminal radar service South | 124.0 | Dannelly |
| Approach (secondary) | 112.1 | Dannelly |
| Approach (secondary) North | 118.85 | Dannelly |
| Approach (secondary) South | 132.45 | Dannelly |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Dannelly |
| Montgomery and center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.55 | Dannelly |
| Montgomery and rco | 122.2 | Montgomery · Communications provided by san diego radio on frequency 122.2 (Montgomery rco). |
| Sfa | 122.85 | Dannelly |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 334-245-6083.
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 Montgomery from the FAA register
130 aircraft are registered to owners in Montgomery, Alabama: 78 piston singles, 11 piston twins, 11 helicopters, 9 turboprops, 9 drones. 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 Alabama.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 21 since 1982, 3 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
- Up to 2200 psi.
- No 180 degrees turns on runway 10/28 by DC-9 or larger aircraft.
- Alabama ang only.
- When the control tower closed high-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 preset med intst, medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 preset low intst. PAPI runways 03, 21, 10, and 28 operates continuously. Activate approach lights (MALSR) runways 10 and 28; runway end identifier lights runway 03 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: 1200 feet above ground level conv aircraft, 1700 feet above ground level jet aircraft.
- Hook BAK-12B(B) (1500 feet).
- Hook BAK-12B(B) (1510 feet).
- SERVICE-FUEL: ( a++100 (military)).
- DC-10-10 320; DC-10-30 and 40 400; L1011 350; B747 500.
- Runway 03/21 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Military: runway 10 and runway 28 BAK-12B(B) available with 30 minimum PN 1200-0500Z++. 8 PT TIE-DOWNS on BAK-12B(B). Raised cable on ATIS bcst.
- Caution: do not mistake maxwell afb - 6 NM north for mongomery regional. Numerous helicopter and low speed aircraft in the vicinity of airport durg daylight hours.
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.