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
- 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
- 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
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, 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway is over grown and ltd to a lighter smaller aircraft. Use caution to land.
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.