Philadelphia Municipal Airport
IATA: none ICAO: KMPE FAA LID: MPE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	City of Philadelphia
Serves	Philadelphia, Mississippi
Elevation AMSL	458 ft / 140 m
Coordinates	32°47′57″N 089°07′34″W / 32.79917°N 89.12611°W / 32.79917; -89.12611
Website	http://www.philadelphiathecity.com/philadelphia-municipal-airport
Map
MPE Location of airport in Mississippi Show map of Mississippi MPE MPE (the United States) Show map of the United States
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 18/36 5,001 1,524 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Aircraft operations (year ending 2/3/2023) 9,552 Based aircraft 10
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Philadelphia Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMPE, FAA LID: MPE) is a public use airport in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States.^[1] It is owned by the City of Philadelphia and located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of its central business district.^[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.^[2]

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MPE by the FAA^[1] but has no designation from the IATA^[3] (which assigned MPE to Griswold Airport in Madison, Connecticut).^[4]

Facilities and aircraft

Philadelphia Municipal Airport covers an area of 60 acres (24 ha) at an elevation of 458 feet (140 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,001 by 75 feet (1,524 x 23 m).^[1]

For the 12-month period ending February 3, 2023, the airport had 9,552 aircraft operations, an average of 26 per day: 99% general aviation and 2% military. At that time there were 10 aircraft based at this airport: 6 single-engine, 2 multi-engine, and 2 jet.^[1]