Alert Field
18TE · Big Sandy, Texas · Upshur County · map
Alert Field is a private airport, 2 miles east of Big Sandy, Texas, 390 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 5,093 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 18TE
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 390 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 5,093 × 45 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 08: trees 30 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 26: trees 50 ft high 203 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Fox Stephens Fld/Gilmer Municipal (9 nm northeast), Tyler Pounds Regional (22 nm southwest), East Texas Regional (22 nm southeast), Wood County/Collins Field (24 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Gladewater Municipal (6 nm southeast), Fox Stephens Fld/Gilmer Municipal (9 nm northeast), Tyler Pounds Regional (22 nm southwest), East Texas Regional (22 nm southeast).
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
- Pilot controlled beacon. To activate - 5 clicks on radio (15 minimum timer) - 122.8.
- Caution: road intersects cntr of runway 2507 feet from threshold of runway 8. Runway gates must be lowered for landing. To activate gates: 7 clicks down (2 minimum timer), and 9 clicks up.
- Pilot controlled low-intensity runway lights runway 8/26. To activate - 5 clicks on radio (15 minimum timer) - 122.8.
- Provide your own tie downs.
- Unlit windsock at each end of runway.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; only western 2/3 of runway lighted. No taxiway lights.
- +30 feet trees at threshold, 100 feet right.
- +10 feet road at 146 feet, air carriers approach.
- Runway crests at mid and slopes downward twd each end. Aircraft landing runway 26 may want to touchdown past hngr taxiway to avoid upslope.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Big Sandy from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Big Sandy, Texas: 4 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
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 Big Sandy 4 aircraft · 4 piston singles
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 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 29,945 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/18TE.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 October 30, 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.