Deer Meadow Ranch Airport
5TA8 · Athens, Texas · Anderson County · map
Deer Meadow Ranch Airport is a private airport owned by Eastex Deer Meadow LLC, 12 miles south of Athens, Texas, 520 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 5TA8
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Eastex Deer Meadow LLC
- Elevation
- 520 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1997
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,000 × 75 ft | Grass |
- Runway 17: trees 50 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 35: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 15 ft high 465 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Athens from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Athens, Texas: 17 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twin. 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
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.