Sterling Airport
10XA · Port Lavaca, Texas · Calhoun County · map
Sterling Airport is a private airport, 3 miles south of Port Lavaca, Texas, 30 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,300 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 10XA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 30 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, dawn to dusk
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- April 2011
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 2,300 × 20 ft | Asphalt |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Calhoun County (2 nm southwest), Shank N Bank Airport (11 nm east), Victoria Regional (17 nm northwest), Aransas County (41 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Calhoun County (2 nm southwest), Victoria Regional (17 nm northwest), Jackson County (20 nm north), Aransas County (41 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Texas · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided owners of proposed airport and Calhoun county airport (7TS5) enter into an opnl loa.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Port Lavaca from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Port Lavaca, Texas: 10 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 3 helicopters, 2 drones, 1 piston twin. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Gateway Flight Center LLC 3 aircraft · Port Lavaca, 2 miles away Gateway Flight Center is a flight school and FBO at Calhoun County Airport in Port Lavaca, Texas.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Port Lavaca 20 aircraft · 10 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 3 helicopters
- Gateway Flight Center LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Bee Fly Drone Services LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Gateway Flight Center LLC 3 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,244 since 1982 · 1,064 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/10XA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of November 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.