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Airports and Airspace (FAA)
Look up any U.S. airport, heliport or seaplane base by code, name or city: its elevation, status, services and runways, any delays the FAA is reporting now, and the controlled airspace above it.
Or enter a place or coordinates to see what airspace lies over it, including military and special-use areas and prohibited areas such as the one over Washington, D.C.
Airport facts are the FAA's own, from its 28-day publication cycle (effective 2026/10/01).
How to use this page (airspace classes and tips)
- Find the codes for a place or a county: type a place the way you would say it, such as Columbus Ohio or Tampa, FL, or drill down: choose a State, click a county in the list that appears, and you get every airport in that county (you can also type a county in the County box). Airline airports come first, then the other airports; use the drop-down to include heliports and the rest. You get the airports that serve it with their codes, airline airports first (Columbus gives CMH, then Rickenbacker LCK, then the smaller fields such as TZR).
- Find an airport: type its code (ATL, KATL), words from its name (“Hartsfield”) or a city. Add a state to narrow, and choose a type to leave out the many heliports.
- A list of airport codes: tick Airline airports only (add a state to narrow) to see every FAA-certificated airline airport in a table: its code (the same three letters airlines and baggage tags use, such as MIA, CMH, ATL), its four-letter ICAO code (KMIA, KCMH, KATL), the name and the city. The FAA file lists the FAA and ICAO codes; for these airports the FAA code matches the airline code in nearly every case, but a few differ, so check the airline’s own code if it matters.
- An airport's page shows its facts, runways (length, width, surface, instrument approach equipment), the airspace over it, and any delay, ground stop or closure the FAA is reporting for it now.
- What is over a place: use the second box with a place name or coordinates (for example 38.8977, -77.0365). It lists the layers of airspace at that point.
- Classes in short: A is high altitude (18,000 ft up to FL600) and needs an instrument flight plan; B surrounds the busiest airports and needs clearance; C and D surround towered airports and need radio contact; E is the general controlled airspace that covers most of the country, usually starting at 700 or 1,200 feet above the ground or higher.
- Mode C veil: a ring around the busiest airports where an aircraft needs a transponder that reports altitude.
- Special use and prohibited areas (military operating areas, restricted areas, and P-56 over the White House) show their times of use and controlling agency when the FAA lists them.
- The airspace part is live from the FAA's map service, which many people share and which sometimes says it is busy. If it does, wait a few minutes and try again: the airport facts and runways do not depend on it.
- Heights are as the FAA lists them: “surface” is the ground, “ft” is feet, “FL” is a flight level (FL600 is about 60,000 ft). Whether a height is above ground or above sea level is on the FAA's charts, not in this list.
- Reference only: airspace and airport data change. Use current FAA charts and notices for flight planning.
Credit: airport, runway and airspace data from the FAA Aeronautical Information Services open data, published on the FAA's 28-day cycle and copied here for up to 12 hours. Reference only: use current FAA charts and notices for flight planning.
