Cottonwood Airport
P52 · Cottonwood, Arizona · Yavapai County · map
Cottonwood Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Cottonwood, 1 mile southwest of Cottonwood, Arizona, 3,560 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 4,250 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA P52
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Cottonwood
- Elevation
- 3,560 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Phoenix sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 4,250 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, brush 8 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 126.375 | |
| P52 and aWOS-3 | 119.925 | |
| Cottonwood and rco | 122.3 | Cottonwood · Communications provided by prescott radio on frequency 122.3 (Cottonwood rco). |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 928-634-0916.
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 Cottonwood from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Cottonwood, Arizona: 20 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 3 helicopters, 2 turboprops, 1 balloon. 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 Arizona.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 28 since 1982, 5 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 runway end identifier lights runway 14 and 32; PAPI runway 14 and 32; medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude: 800 feet above ground level single eng.
- H24 with credit card.
- Runway 32 calm wind runway.
- 300 feet paved stwy both ends.
- 12 feet brush 50-200 feet from threshold 120-175 feet R of centerline; 15 feet brush 0-200 feet from threshold 60-250 feet L of centerline; 4 feet berm 30-200 feet from threshold 125-250 feet L of centerline.
- Gliders and wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Tgl operations NA 6:00 pm to 8:00 am wkday and 6:00 pm to 9:00 am wkend and holidays. More than three aircraft conducting tgl operations in pattern NA.
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.