Louisville Muhammad Ali International
SDF · KSDF · Louisville, Kentucky · Jefferson County · map
Louisville Muhammad Ali International is a public-use airport, 4 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, 501 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 17R/35L, is 11,887 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SDF · ICAO KSDF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 501 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1942
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17R/35L | 11,887 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 17L/35R | 8,578 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 11/29 | 7,251 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 17R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 846 ft, 10,000 ft available for landing
- Runway 35L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), threshold displaced 1,040 ft, 10,000 ft available for landing
- Runway 17L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 328 ft, 7,800 ft available for landing
- Runway 35R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), threshold displaced 449 ft, 7,800 ft available for landing
- Runway 11: PAPI, four lights on the left, 6,946 ft available for landing, building 55 ft high 1,375 ft from the end
- Runway 29: LOCALIZER, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Digital ATIS | 118.725 | Louisville |
| Clearance delivery | 118.05 | |
| Clearance delivery | 119.45 | |
| Clearance delivery | 126.1 | Louisville |
| Ground | 121.7 | Louisville |
| Tower | 124.2 | Louisville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 170 to 349 | 123.675 | Louisville |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace arriving from headings 350 to 169 | 132.075 | Louisville |
| Approach | 134.15 | Louisville |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Louisville |
| Sdf and vot | 111.0 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 502-676-6814.
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Aircraft registered in Louisville from the FAA register
625 aircraft are registered to owners in Louisville, Kentucky: 212 piston singles, 198 airliners and large jets, 127 business jets, 46 balloons, 19 piston twins. 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 Kentucky.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 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.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Engineered material arresting system (emas) with 581 feet setback 219 feet in length by 178 feet in width located at the der 29.
- Taxiway east intersection departure 7700 feet available.
- Standard departure points at taxiway B8 and taxiway A8. Requireds use of runway 17R extn. Takeoff at taxiway B8 asda/tora/toda 10245 feet.
- Standard departure points at taxiway a and taxiway B; requireds use of runway 35L extn; takeoff at taxiway a and taxiway B asda/tora/toda 10250 feet.
- Taxiway E2 intersection departure 6300 feet available.
- Ctn: const in prog; fqt runway and taxiway closures psbl.
- ANG/123TAC recon.
- Line up and wait waiver in effect sunset to sunrise at int of runway 17R at taxiway B8 or at taxiway A8 and int of runway 35L at taxiway a or at taxiway B.
- Ang: duty hour 1200-2000Z/DT 1300-2100Z MON-THU; 1200-1800Z/DT 1300-1900Z Friday. Apvl authorized 123 AW/ogc; base operations D741-4581/4584/ C502-413-4581/4584. Eng start and taxi clnc - derby operations.
- Tail height 65 feet or gtr 24 hour prior permission required.
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.