Tuscaloosa Ntl Airport
TCL · KTCL · Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Tuscaloosa County · map
Tuscaloosa Ntl Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Tuscaloosa, 3 miles northwest of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 170 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 6,498 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 109 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 40,933 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3,539 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KTCL · observed 4:53 pm CDT (21:53 UTC), 59 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the northeast (050°) at 9 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 86°F (30°C), dew point 57°F (14°C)
- Altimeter 29.93 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 12:20 pm CDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 1:00 pm CDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the east at 6 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
- From Tue 7:00 pm CDT (00:00 UTC): wind calm, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KTCL 062153Z 05009KT 10SM CLR 30/14 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP133 T03000139
TAF KTCL 061720Z 0618/0718 09006KT P6SM SKC FM070000 00000KT P6SM SKC
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 TCL · ICAO KTCL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Tuscaloosa
- Elevation
- 170 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 10:00 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
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 6,498 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 4,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 22: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 38 ft high 1,550 ft from the end
- Runway 12: tree 40 ft high 850 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 61 ft high 1,725 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 126.3 | Tuscaloosa |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| Clearance delivery | 120.775 | Tuscaloosa |
| Ground | 121.8 | Tuscaloosa |
| Approach and departure | 120.15 | Tuscaloosa |
| Tuscaloosa and rco | 122.2 | Tuscaloosa |
| Tcl and automated weather (ASOS) | 132.825 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 205-800-4042.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 40,933, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Tuscaloosa from the FAA register
76 aircraft are registered to owners in Tuscaloosa, Alabama: 40 piston singles, 13 business jets, 6 piston twins, 5 helicopters, 5 drones. 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 · 24 since 1982, 4 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
- When the control tower closed activate high-intensity runway lights runway 04/22, approach lights (MALSR) runway 04, PAPI runway 22, medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 and taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 12/30 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. Lighted as a visual runway.
- Birds and deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.