Northwest Alabama Regional
MSL · KMSL · Muscle Shoals, Alabama · Colbert County · map
Northwest Alabama Regional is a public-use airport, 1 mile east of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 550 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 6,694 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MSL · ICAO KMSL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 550 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 6,694 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18/36 | 4,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 52 ft high 1,689 ft from the end
- Runway 30: ILS, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 68 ft high 2,004 ft from the end
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 61 ft high 906 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Msl and automated weather (ASOS) | 119.425 | |
| Huntsville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 120.8 | |
| Apt Remark 9 With Gco Freq | 121.725 | · Gco available on frequency 121.725 for memphis the air route traffic control center (zme). |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 256-383-2304.
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 Muscle Shoals from the FAA register
21 aircraft are registered to owners in Muscle Shoals, Alabama: 10 piston singles, 7 helicopters, 3 piston twins, 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 Alabama.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 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
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 30; runway end identifier lights runway 12; PAPI runway 12; PAPI runway 18 and 36; high-intensity runway lights runway 12/30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Except thanksgiving, christmas, and new years day
- Ext. 101.
- Runway 18/36 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.
- Calm wind runway.
- No general aviation parking on air carrier ramp.
- Landing fee and passenger facility chrg for unscheduled air carrier and chtr operations.
- Taxiway a is the pref taxiway for air carrier and chtr operations using the air carrier ramp.
- Landing fee for air carrier over 12,500 pounds.
- Gco available on frequency 121.725 for memphis the air route traffic control center (zme).
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.