C E 'Rusty' Williams Airport
3F3 · Mansfield, Louisiana · De Soto County · map
C E 'Rusty' Williams Airport is a public-use airport owned by De Soto Parish Police Jury, 3 miles northwest of Mansfield, Louisiana, 324 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,005 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3F3
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- De Soto Parish Police Jury
- Elevation
- 324 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; weekends, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,005 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 50 ft high 1,609 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 105 ft high 2,043 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.9 | |
| 3F3 AWOS-3PT | 119.125 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 318-872-3537.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Mansfield from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Mansfield, Louisiana: 7 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 2 helicopters. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset low intst; to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runways 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel available 24 hours with credit card.
- Currently not working
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.