Frontier Airport
55XS · Spofford, Texas · Kinney County · map
Frontier Airport is a private airport owned by El Pescado Minerals, LTD., 1 mile southwest of Spofford, Texas, 1,001 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 4,316 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 55XS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- El Pescado Minerals, LTD.
- Elevation
- 1,001 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,316 × 60 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 01: tower 350 ft high 7,000 ft from the end
- Runway 19: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 310 ft, tower 350 ft high 3,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.7 |
Aircraft registered in Spofford from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Spofford, TX as the owner's town.
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
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.