George M Bryan Airport
STF · KSTF · Starkville, Mississippi · Oktibbeha County · map
George M Bryan Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Starkville, 3 miles southwest of Starkville, Mississippi, 333 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,550 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA STF · ICAO KSTF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Starkville
- Elevation
- 333 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,550 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,379 ft, sign 32 ft high 900 ft from the end
- Runway 36: localizer with DME, PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 126.25 | |
| Approach and departure | 135.6 | |
| Stf and aWOS-3PT | 118.975 | |
| Columbus and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.1 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 662-323-4966.
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 Starkville from the FAA register
68 aircraft are registered to owners in Starkville, Mississippi: 52 piston singles, 9 drones, 3 gliders, 2 piston twins, 1 helicopter. 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 Mississippi.
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
- Experimental aircraft on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 8:00 am to 4:30 pm; aft hour activate runway end identifier lights runway 36; high-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 18 and 36 operates continuously.
- Pilots must provide tiedown ropes.
- Approach ratio 49:1 from dthr.
- Courtesy car available.
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.