Murfreesboro Municipal Airport

{{Use American English|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox airport

| name = Murfreesboro Municipal Airport

| image = MBT Murfreesboro.jpg

| caption = USGS aerial image, March 1997

| IATA =

| ICAO = KMBT

| FAA = MBT

| type = Public

| owner-oper = City of Murfreesboro

| city-served = Murfreesboro, Tennessee

| location =

| elevation-f = 614

| elevation-m = 187

| website = {{Official website|1=http://www.murfreesborotn.gov/Index.aspx?NID=95}}

| coordinates = {{coord|35|52|39|N|086|22|39|W|region:US-TN_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = USA Tennessee#USA

| pushpin_mapsize = 200

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in Tennessee

| pushpin_label = MBT

| pushpin_label_position = right

| r1-number = 18/36

| r1-length-f = 4,753

| r1-length-m = 1,449

| r1-surface = Asphalt

| stat-year = 2022

| stat1-header = Aircraft operations (year ending 6/30/2022)

| stat1-data = 87,015

| stat2-header = Based aircraft

| stat2-data = 133

| footnotes = Source: Federal Aviation Administration{{FAA-airport|ID=MBT|use=PU|own=PU|site=23118.2*A}}. Federal Aviation Administration. November 30, 2023. Accessed December 3, 2023.

}}

Murfreesboro Municipal Airport {{airport codes||KMBT|MBT}} is a city-owned, public-use airport located {{convert|2|nmi|km|spell=in}} north of the central business district of Murfreesboro, a city in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States. This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport.{{cite web |url=http://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/npias/reports/media/2011/npias_2011_appA.pdf |title=2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A (PDF, 2.03 MB) |work=National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems |publisher=Federal Aviation Administration |date=October 4, 2010}} Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned MBT by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA{{cite web |url=http://www.gcmap.com/airport/KMBT |title=Murfreesboro Municipal Airport (ICAO: KMBT, FAA: MBT) |publisher=Great Circle Mapper |accessdate=April 24, 2012}} (which assigned MBT to Masbate Airport in the Philippines).{{cite web |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=MBT |title=Masbate Airport (IATA: MBT, ICAO: RPVJ) |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |accessdate=April 24, 2012}}

It is the home of the Middle Tennessee State University Aerospace Department, which has one of the largest university Air Traffic Collegiate Training Initiative (AT-CTI) programs in the country, and their aircraft and simulators. Aircraft owned by MTSU include 30 Diamond DA40s, a Diamond DA20, five Piper PA-44 Seminoles, a Piper PA-18 Super Cub, a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, and a Beechcraft King Air 350.{{cite web |url=http://www.mtsu.edu/aerospace/airplanes.php |title=MTSU Aerospace: Airplanes |publisher=Middle Tennessee State University |accessdate=November 9, 2022}}

The Murfreesboro Municipal Airport is one of the only general aviation airports in the State of Tennessee that does not receive tax payer money. The money used to maintain the airport is entirely generated by leases and fuel sales.{{cite web |url=http://www.murfreesborotn.gov/Index.aspx?NID=95 |title=Airport |publisher=City of Murfreesboro |accessdate=December 11, 2013}}

In 2007 the airport won the Tennessee Airport of the Year award.