Charping Airport
5TA1 · Temple, Texas · Bell County · map
Charping Airport is a private airport, 6 miles north of Temple, Texas, 683 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 2,200 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 5TA1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 683 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 2,200 × 60 ft | Grass |
- Runway 01: power lines 25 ft high 200 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: Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional (2 nm south), Skylark Field (16 nm southwest), MC Gregor Executive (18 nm north), Robert Gray Army Airfield (23 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional (2 nm south), Skylark Field (16 nm southwest), MC Gregor Executive (18 nm north), Gatesville Municipal (24 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
- VFR operations only; provided approach slopes to landing are maintd iaw part 77 of far.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Temple from the FAA register
84 aircraft are registered to owners in Temple, Texas: 64 piston singles, 7 piston twins, 4 business jets, 3 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 helicopters. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Temple, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Repair stations in Temple:
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 · 4 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 Temple 84 aircraft · 64 piston singles, 7 piston twins, 4 business jets
- Kachemak Bay Flying Service INC 8 aircraft in town
- T&G Aviation Services LLC 4 aircraft in town
- Mclane Company INC 2 aircraft in town
- T&G Aviation Services LLC 4 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- T & G Aviation Services LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Kachemak Bay Flying Service · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 4 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,244 since 1982 · 1,063 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 29,976 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5TA1.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 9, 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.