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
- 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
- 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 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Tennessee.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR, private use only.
- Multicom 123.5 and 123.3 secondary.
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.