Possum Bottom Airport
TN89 · Whitwell, Tennessee · Marion County · map
Possum Bottom Airport is a private airport, 6 miles northeast of Whitwell, Tennessee, 700 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 2,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TN89
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 700 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2W
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1984
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 2,200 × 60 ft | Grass |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Marion County/Brown Field (14 nm southwest), Lovell Field (18 nm southeast), Collegedale Municipal (25 nm southeast), Mark Anton Airport (29 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Marion County/Brown Field (14 nm southwest), Lovell Field (18 nm southeast), Franklin County (22 nm west), Collegedale Municipal (25 nm southeast).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Tennessee · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- VFR, private use only.
- Multicom 123.5 and 123.3 secondary.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Whitwell from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Whitwell, Tennessee: 3 piston singles, 2 gliders, 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Whitwell 6 aircraft · 3 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 piston twins
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Tennessee 1,198 since 1982 · 231 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Tennessee 76 landing places
- Tennessee 6,534 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TN89.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 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.