Old Hickory Ranch Airport
56LA · Keithville, Louisiana · Caddo County · map
Old Hickory Ranch Airport is a private airport, 1 mile northeast of Keithville, Louisiana, 180 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,500 feet of asphalt and 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 56LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 180 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1982
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,500 × 100 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair |
- Runway 18: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 50 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 36: trees 50 ft high 50 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: Shreveport Regional (6 nm north), Shreveport Downtown Airport (12 nm north), C E 'Rusty' Williams Airport (17 nm south), Harrison County (27 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Shreveport Regional (6 nm north), Shreveport Downtown Airport (12 nm north), C E 'Rusty' Williams Airport (17 nm south), Panola County-Sharpe Field (26 nm west).
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
- CONLD--PRVDD all traffic pattern operations are conducted on the west side of airport (I.east., all turns to left when taking off or landing north and all turns to right when taking off or landing south).
- 50 feet cntr of runway asphalt.
- Also 30' PLINE-M 50' from threshold
- Wildlife on or in the vicinity of the airport.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Keithville from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Keithville, Louisiana: 5 balloons, 1 piston single. 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:
- Tubreaux Aviation Services LLC 5 aircraft · Shreveport, 14 miles away Tubreaux Aviation is a flight school based in Shreveport, Louisiana that provides flight training from private pilot through CFI ratings, aircraft maintenance, aircraft management, and FBO services.
- Budget Flyers 1 aircraft · Shreveport, 14 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
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 Keithville 6 aircraft · 5 balloons, 1 piston singles
- Tubreaux Aviation Services LLC 5 aircraft · flight school
- Budget Flyers 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 187 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 3,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/56LA.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 30, 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.