Tunica Municipal
UTA · KUTA · Tunica, Mississippi · Tunica County · map
Tunica Municipal is a public-use airport owned by Tunica County Airport Commission, 1 mile east of Tunica, Mississippi, 194 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 8,500 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KUTA · observed 4:15 pm CDT (21:15 UTC), 4 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northeast (020°) at 8 knots
- Visibility 8 miles
- Temperature 88°F (31°C), dew point 53°F (12°C)
- Altimeter 29.95 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KUTA 062115Z AUTO 02008KT 8SM CLR 31/12 A2995 RMK AO2 T03120119 $
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 UTA · ICAO KUTA
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Tunica County Airport Commission
- Elevation
- 194 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 9:00 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
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1981
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 8,500 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 35: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Clearance delivery | 118.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.1 | |
| Uta and aWOS-3 | 118.075 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 662-363-1652.
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 Tunica from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Tunica, Mississippi: 5 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 3 business jets, 1 piston twin, 1 drone. 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 Mississippi.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 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
- VFR only; airport traffic pattern established on east side of runway and runway centerline extndd.
- Closed to schedule air carrier operations with more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled air carrier operations with more than 30 passenger seats.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 35; runway end identifier lights runway 17; high-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 - the common traffic frequency.
- Aft hour fuel - amgr.
- Triple tandem = 510
- Runway 35 calm wind runway.
- Agricultural act in the vicinity of airport daylight.
- Geese in the vicinity of airport nov - feb.
- 24 hour prior permission required commercial flight ovr 30 passenger - amgr.
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.