Bruce Beard Airport
52LA · Bell City, Louisiana · Calcasieu County · map
Bruce Beard Airport is a private airport, 9 miles southwest of Bell City, Louisiana, 13 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 2,620 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 52LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 13 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- March 2011
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 2,620 × 90 ft | Grass |
- Runway 27: threshold displaced 600 ft, power line 30 ft high 40 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: Lake Charles Regional (8 nm northwest), Chennault International (10 nm north), Southland Field (15 nm west), Jennings Airport (25 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lake Charles Regional (8 nm northwest), Chennault International (10 nm north), Southland Field (15 nm west), Jennings Airport (25 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 Louisiana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only; coordinate with adjacent airfield located 7,300 feet east.
- Displaced thld marked with orange cones.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Bell City from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Bell City, Louisiana: 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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 Louisiana.
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:
- C & S Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Grand Lake, 5 miles away
- Rock Solid Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · Lake Charles, 9 miles away Rock Solid Aviation is a flight school based in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with additional operations in Sulphur, Louisiana and Beaumont and Orange, Texas.
- Sowela Technical Community College 4 aircraft · Lake Charles, 9 miles away
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 · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Bell City 2 aircraft · 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 1 helicopters
- C & S Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Rock Solid Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · flight school
- Sowela Technical Community College 4 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,274 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/52LA.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 November 12, 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.