Millington/Memphis Airport
NQA · KNQA · Millington, Tennessee · Shelby County · map
Millington/Memphis Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile northeast of Millington, Tennessee, 322 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 8,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive).
Weather right now KNQA · observed 2:50 pm CDT (19:50 UTC), 48 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northeast (050°) at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 84°F (29°C), dew point 50°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 29.98 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KNQA 061950Z 05003KT 10SM CLR 29/10 A2998
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NQA · ICAO KNQA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 322 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 9:00 am to 2:00 am++ monday; 8:00 am to 2:00 am++ tue-fri; 7:00 am to 2:00 am++ saturday; 7:00 am to 7:00 pm++ sunday
- Attended
- Monday, 9:00 am to 2:00 am++; Tuesday to Friday, 8:00 am to 2:00 am++; Saturday, 7:00 am to 2:00 am++; Sunday, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm++
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 8,001 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 22: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.25 | Millington |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Ground | 121.375 | Millington |
| Approach · Class B airspace arriving from headings 176 to 355 | 119.1 | Millington |
| Approach · Class B airspace arriving from headings 356 to 175 | 125.8 | Millington |
| Approach (secondary) arriving from headings 356 to 175 | 120.075 | Millington |
| Approach (secondary) arriving from headings 356 to 175 | 120.925 | Millington |
| Approach (secondary) arriving from headings 176 to 355 | 126.7 | Millington |
| Departure arriving from headings 356 to 175 | 124.15 | Millington |
| Departure arriving from headings 176 to 355 | 124.65 | Millington |
| Nqa and aWOS-3 | 118.925 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 901-873-3630.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Millington from the FAA register
22 aircraft are registered to owners in Millington, Tennessee: 14 piston singles, 3 helicopters, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 business jets, 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 · 7 since 1982, 0 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 22; runway end identifier lights runway 04; high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 - the common traffic frequency. High-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 04 and 22 on continuously.
- Dla energy INTO-PLANE contr fuel available. U.S. government air card acptd.
- Cat C afld.
- Taxiway B closed to air carrier.
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.