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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

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
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
Magnetic variation: 4E
In the FAA's files since: April 1965

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

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

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, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Gladewater Municipal 07F · 6 nm southeast Fox Stephens Fld/Gilmer Municipal JXI · 9 nm northeast Tyler Pounds Regional TYR · 22 nm southwest East Texas Regional GGG · 22 nm southeast Mineola Wisener Field 3F9 · 23 nm west Wood County/Collins Field JDD · 24 nm northwest Winnsboro Municipal F51 · 24 nm northwest Rusk County RFI · 29 nm south

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

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.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 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.