Old Reb Airport
5XS6 · Mercedes, Texas · Hidalgo County · map
Old Reb Airport is a private airport owned by Bas Holdco INC, 3 miles northeast of Mercedes, Texas, 60 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,000 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 5XS6
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Bas Holdco INC
- Elevation
- 60 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, dawn to dusk
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,000 × 40 ft | Asphalt and grass, fair |
- Runway 12: road on the approach
- Runway 30: road on the approach
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Also here
- crop spraying
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Mid Valley International (5 nm west), Valley International (12 nm east), MC Allen International (20 nm west), South Texas International AT Edinburg (21 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Mid Valley International (5 nm west), Valley International (12 nm east), MC Allen International (20 nm west), South Texas International AT Edinburg (21 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
- Pre dates the act. Existed prior to 1959.
- First 500 feet northwest end of runway, ASPH-G; rmndr of runway surface loose gravel and grass. North taxiway - good condition; southeast taxiway - very poor condition.
- Northwest 200 feet, 50 feet wide; next 400 feet, 25 feet wide; remainder 40 feet wide.
- Pvt; N-S farm airstrip 25 an X 1800'; 850' north of north E-W property line.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mercedes from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mercedes, TX as the owner's town.
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:
- Sun Valley Aviation INC 3 aircraft · Harlingen, 14 miles away Sun Valley Aviation is a full-service FBO at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, offering fuel, maintenance, aircraft storage, flight training, charter services, and aircraft sales since 2008.
- Valley Wings Flight School LLC 2 aircraft · Harlingen, 14 miles away Valley Wings Flight School is an FAA Part 61 certified flight training facility located at Harlingen Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas.
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
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,244 since 1982 · 1,065 in the last ten years
- Sun Valley Aviation INC 3 aircraft · flight school
- Valley Wings Flight School LLC 2 aircraft · flight school
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,960 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/5XS6.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 4, 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.