Tullahoma Regional Airport , also known as William Northern Field and Soesbe-Martin Field, is a public use

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Coffee County, Tennessee Coffee County is a county located in the central part of the state of Tennessee, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 57,889. Its county seat is Manchester. Coffee County is part of the Tullahoma-Mancheste ...

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. It is owned by the City of Tullahoma and located two

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s (4 km) northwest of its

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. This airport is included in the

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for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a ''

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'' facility.

History

The airport received permission to build 11 new hangars in October 2023.

Facilities and aircraft

Tullahoma Regional Airport covers an area of 594

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s (240 ha) at an

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of 1,084 feet (330 m) above

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. It has three

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s: 6/24 is 5,501 by 150 feet (1,677 x 46 m) and 18/36 is 5,002 by 100 feet (1,525 x 30 m), both with

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surfaces; 9/27 is 2,693 by 100 feet (821 x 30 m) with a

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surface. For the 12-month period ending April 8, 2009, the airport had 30,400 aircraft operations, an average of 83 per day: 97%

, 2%

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, and 1%

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. At that time there were 123 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single-

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, 12% multi-engine, 2% jet, and 2%

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. The

Beechcraft Heritage Museum The Beechcraft Heritage Museum is an aviation museum at the Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tullahoma, Tennessee. It is focused on the history of the Beech Aircraft Corporation. History The museum was founded by Carolyn and Richard Perry, Louis ...

is Located on the south side of the airport.

Accidents and incidents

* On June 8, 2025, a skydiving

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plane carrying twenty people crashed in an open area near Old Shelbyville Highway while taking off from the airport. Multiple people were injured, including several who were transported to hospitals by medical helicopters, two critically and others evaluated at the scene. The

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and the

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are investigating the accident.

References

External links

Tullahoma Airport
at City of Tullahoma website

at

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airport directory
Beechcraft Heritage Museum
adjacent to the airport
Aerial image as of March 1997
from

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History

Facilities and aircraft

Accidents and incidents

See also

References

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