Franklin County
UOS · KUOS · Sewanee, Tennessee · Franklin County · map
Franklin County is a public-use airport owned by Franklin County, 1 mile east of Sewanee, Tennessee, 1,953 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 3,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA UOS · ICAO KUOS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Franklin County
- Elevation
- 1,953 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Saturday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Atlanta sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1954
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 3,700 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 35 ft high 305 ft from the end
- Runway 25: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, tree 157 ft high 2,489 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Sewanee from the FAA register
10 aircraft are registered to owners in Sewanee, Tennessee: 9 piston singles, 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 Tennessee.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 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 use only.
- PAPI runway 07 and 25 on continuously. Actv medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Approach ratio 18:1 to dthr.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runway.
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.