Maravillas Gap Ranch Airport
48XS · Marathon, Texas · Brewster County · map
Maravillas Gap Ranch Airport is a private airport, 17 miles south of Marathon, Texas, 3,325 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 5,000 feet of asphalt.
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 48XS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 3,325 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- El Paso sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 5,000 × 40 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 13: hill 200 ft high 1,000 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: Alpine-Casparis Municipal (34 nm northwest), Lajitas International (44 nm southwest), Marfa Municipal (46 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Alpine-Casparis Municipal (34 nm northwest), Lajitas International (44 nm southwest), Marfa Municipal (46 nm northwest).
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
- Runway is over grown and ltd to a lighter smaller aircraft. Use caution to land.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Marathon from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Marathon, Texas: 2 piston singles, 1 helicopter. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Marathon 3 aircraft · 2 piston singles, 1 helicopters
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/48XS.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 29, 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.