Perry County Municipal
TEL · KTEL · Tell City, Indiana · Perry County · map
Perry County Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Perry County Arpt Auth, 6 miles northeast of Tell City, Indiana, 660 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 4,400 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TEL · ICAO KTEL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Perry County Arpt Auth
- Elevation
- 660 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- St Louis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,400 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 20 ft high 370 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the right, tree 43 ft high 680 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 124.025 | |
| Evansville and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.3 |
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Aircraft registered in Tell City from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Tell City, Indiana: 4 piston singles, 4 drones, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Indiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Sawrs
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 13 and 31; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 13 and 31 H24.
- Trees 15-20' tall 100' L of centerline
- Crops 5FT tall at 170FT R of CL
- Clnc slope 15:1 at thld
- Self serv fuel 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.