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Everett–Stewart Regional Airport (KUCY) serves Union City, Tennessee, sitting five miles southeast of the town in Obion County. Built as a World War II pilot-training field, it now hosts a mix of local and transient general aviation traffic alongside occasional business jet and helicopter movements. Its single long hard-surfaced runway with an ILS approach makes it a straightforward and interesting VFR or IFR destination in northwest Tennessee.
Everett–Stewart Regional Airport is a public general aviation airport in Obion County, Tennessee, about five miles southeast of Union City and close to Martin, Tennessee. Named for Senator Tom Stewart and Congressman Robert A. "Fats" Everett, the field traces its lineage to a World War II Army Air Forces primary flight training base. Today it is operated as a professionally run regional airport with a full-service fixed base operation, and it remains of interest to sim pilots for its long single runway, ILS approach, and surviving wartime hangars.
The airport lies in Obion County in northwest Tennessee, five miles southeast of Union City and near Martin, Tennessee. Traffic in the area is worked by Memphis Center on 133.65 MHz. No specific controlled airspace class or nearby controlled fields are given in the available sources.
The airport has a single physical runway, 01/19, measuring 6487 feet, with a hard surface and runway lighting. An ILS approach is available to runway 01.
Weather is broadcast on the AWOS frequency of 135.325 MHz. Memphis Center can be reached on 133.65 MHz for en-route and approach coordination. The airport's common traffic advisory frequency and UNICOM callsign is UNIC, on 122.7 MHz. An ILS is available for runway 01.
The airfield was established in 1942 by the United States Army Air Forces as Union City Airport. When activated on 5 July 1942 it had a single 1,800-foot north-south asphalt runway alongside a large 4,000 by 3,900-foot sod landing area, and there may have been three auxiliary landing fields nearby. Flight training was operated under contract to the USAAF by the Embry-Riddle-McKay Co. of Tennessee and the Riddle Aeronautical Institute, providing primary (level 1) instruction to cadets, mainly in Fairchild PT-19s, with some Stearman PT-17s and a few P-40 Warhawks also present. Training ceased when the field was inactivated on 15 April 1944 as the Army Air Forces Training Command drew down its pilot training programme. After the war the land was transferred to civil control by the War Assets Administration on the condition that it remain a public airport. Southeast Airlines operated DC-3 services through the field from 1957 to 1959, followed by Southern Airlines DC-3s from 1961 to 1963. Since then the airport has been used chiefly by local and transient general aviation traffic. It has been home to the Everett-Stewart Composite Squadron of the Tennessee Wing Civil Air Patrol since 2011, re-chartered as the Union City Composite Squadron in 2022.
Everett-Stewart Regional Airport operates as a professionally run regional field with a full-service fixed base operation. It offers self-serve and full-service fuelling, including 100-octane low-lead avgas and Jet A-1 (mixed with Prist), aircraft tie-downs, public and private hangar space including 14 modern T-hangars, three crew cars, an A&P mechanic shop, and a pilot's lounge with basic amenities. The airport retains its two original World War II hangars, which are maintained for public use. Traffic today is dominated by local and transient general aviation types such as Cessna 150s, 172s and 182s, Beechcraft Bonanzas and Cirrus SR-22s, with occasional business and charter traffic including King Airs, Citations, Learjets, Falcons, Challengers and Gulfstreams, and helicopter movements from Robinson R44s up to UH-60 Blackhawks a few times a week. No PPR requirement or simulator scenery availability is noted in the available sources.
