Dan E Richards Municipal
3F6 · Paducah, Texas · Cottle County · map
Dan E Richards Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Paducah & Cottle CO, 1 mile east of Paducah, Texas, 1,860 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18/36, is 3,186 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 3F6
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Paducah & Cottle CO
- Elevation
- 1,860 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,186 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 25 × 25 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 36: berm 5 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Paducah and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.5 |
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Aircraft registered in Paducah from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Paducah, TX as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway 18, 10 feet drop off 60 feet dstc.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- County judge.
- 4 feet fence at threshold 100 feet right.
- 5 feet berm 90 feet L at thld; 5 feet fence 93 feet west of centerline at thld.
- Approach ratio from east 8:1; approach ratio from west crosses centerline of runway 17/35.
- 20 feet lighted windsock 165 feet northeast; 30 feet power line 267 feet east; 20 feet building 240 feet southeast.
- Not maintained. Loose gravel and grass encroachment on surface.
- Runway 18/36 marked as 17/35.
- 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.