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Flying B Ranch Airstrip Airport

35TX · Abilene, Texas · Taylor County · map

Flying B Ranch Airstrip Airport is a private airport, 5 miles northwest of Abilene, Texas, 1,750 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 1,700 feet of grass.

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 35TX
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
1,750 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
Magnetic variation
8E
In the FAA's files since
June 1991

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1634N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
16/341,700 × 75 ftGrass
  • Runway 16: power line 30 ft high 800 ft from the end
  • Runway 34: right-hand traffic pattern, building 25 ft high 700 ft from the end

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: Abilene Regional (9 nm southeast), Avenger Field (32 nm west), Albany Municipal (32 nm northeast), Gregory M Simmons Memorial (41 nm east).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Abilene Regional (9 nm southeast), Arledge Field (26 nm north), Avenger Field (32 nm west), Albany Municipal (32 nm northeast).

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 est. Letter of agreement with dyess air force base based on 2-WAY radio and transponder requirements. Clearly define departures and arrival procedures.
  • Personal use.
  • Livestock may be on runway.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Abilene from the FAA register

109 aircraft are registered to owners in Abilene, Texas: 87 piston singles, 9 piston twins, 4 business jets, 3 turboprops, 3 drones. 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:

Rockhut Aviation LLC 3Jaju Aviation INC 2

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:

Repair stations in Abilene:

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.

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/35TX.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 28, 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.