BFM

Mobile Downtown Airport

ICAO KBFM30.6268°N 88.0681°W26 ft / 8 mMedium airport
On the map
Mobile Downtown Airport - AL - 4 Mar 2002
United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Mobile Downtown Airport (IATA: BFM, ICAO: KBFM) is a medium airport in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 9,618 ft (2,932 m). In 2025 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940
APR 1940
OpenedMobile Downtown Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Mobile International AirportSignature Aviation - BFM
14/32139° / 319° · LIT
LENGTH9,618 ft2,932 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
18/36180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH7,800 ft2,377 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
4K
2K
2K
2K
45K
11K
5K
3K
21K
15K
4K
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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsFedEx Express 1Amazon Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BFM. From the Wikipedia article “Mobile International Airport” (revision of 15 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers4K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,979of 3,974 · #784 North America · #567 USLongest runway9,618 ft2,932 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#1,483of 29,823 · #307 North America · #227 USElevation26 ft8 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,721of 43,341 · =18,414 North America · =15,102 USAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =366 North America · =338 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
A/DAPP/DEP118.500
ATISATIS135.575
CTAFCTAF118.800
GNDGND121.700
RDOANNISTON RDO112.800
TWRDOWNTOWN TWR118.800
UNICUNICOM122.950