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Red Sands Ranch Airport

1XS4 · Mason, Texas · Mason County · map

Red Sands Ranch Airport is a private airport, 7 miles southeast of Mason, Texas, 1,374 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,950 feet of grass.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 1XS4
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,374 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: around the clock
On the chart: San Antonio sectional
In the FAA's files since: May 2016

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
17/35	2,950 × 60 ft	Grass, good

Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern, fence 5 ft high 25 ft from the end
Runway 35: fence 5 ft high 25 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF)

122.9

· Opposite runway ends not vsb. Annc takeoff and tax - the common traffic frequency 122.9

Aircraft registered in Mason from the FAA register

13 aircraft are registered to owners in Mason, Texas: 11 piston singles, 1 helicopter, 1 drone. 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:

Texas Bar Triangle LLC Plane Series 2

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

Mason County T92 · 6 nm north Gillespie County T82 · 28 nm southeast Llano Municipal AQO · 29 nm east B Flying Ranch Airport 0TA8 · 7 nm west · private Snowden Field 6TX1 · 9 nm northwest · private Bar Triangle Airport 5TX1 · 10 nm north · private Polk Ranch Airport XS08 · 15 nm north · private Circle Ranch Airport 6XA0 · 17 nm south · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Windsocks above hngr and midfield.
Opposite runway ends not vsb. Annc takeoff and tax - the common traffic frequency 122.9
Impt: right traffic runway 17; avoid Ranch to the east.

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.