Rawls Ranch Airport
5TE1 · Marfa, Texas · Presidio County · map
Rawls Ranch Airport is a private airport, 39 miles south of Marfa, Texas, 4,520 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 3,722 feet of dirt.
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 5TE1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 4,520 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- El Paso sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1949
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 3,722 × 75 ft | Dirt | |
| 12/30 | 2,400 × 75 ft | Dirt | |
| 03/21 | 1,800 × 75 ft | Dirt | |
| 17/35 | 1,600 × 75 ft | Dirt |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Presidio Lely International (22 nm west), Lajitas International (26 nm southeast), Marfa Municipal (44 nm north), Alpine-Casparis Municipal (47 nm north).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Presidio Lely International (22 nm west), Lajitas International (26 nm southeast), Marfa Municipal (44 nm north), Alpine-Casparis Municipal (47 nm north).
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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Marfa from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Marfa, Texas: 23 piston singles, 5 gliders, 1 turboprop, 1 helicopter, 1 gyroplane. 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.
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 Marfa 31 aircraft · 23 piston singles, 5 gliders, 1 turboprops
- Burt Compton Enterprises INC 4 aircraft in town
- Sky Bear LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Escondido Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,244 since 1982 · 1,064 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 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5TE1.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 6, 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.