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KUTA · UTM

Tunica Municipal Airport

34.68100°N

-90.34670°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 88.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 88.9%

Tunica Municipal Airport (KUTA/UTM) is a small general aviation airport located in Tunica, MS, 36 mi south west of Memphis. It features 1 runway measuring 8,500 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

5h ago

Temp

90°F

Wind

4 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KUTA 261515Z AUTO VRB04KT 10SM BKN055 32/26 A3001 RMK AO2 T03240264 $

Runways

1 installed

8,500 FT MAX

17/35

8,500 ft × 150

ASP● LITHIGH

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

75% of ops

53 land · 13 TO

25% of ops

18 land · 6 TO

Runway 17 carries 75% of operations (53 landings, 13 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 35 at 25%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

17 53 landings

UA 26%

35 18 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 17 show a 26% unstable-approach rate (14 UA events from 53 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

1.9

flights/day · 57 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 2pm · 1pm

Day vs night

77%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 1pm–5pm local, averaging 1.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.9× weekday (1.9 vs 2.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (17% of 48 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.000	—
APCH	119.100	—
APCH	291.600	—
UNICOM	123.000	—
AWOS	118.075	—
CD/P	118.900	—
OTHER	118.900	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZME
Fuel:: 100LL

Pilot & community notes

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Nitrohog

11/04/2012

First Long solo XC

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