Southern Seaplane Airport
65LA · Belle Chasse, Louisiana · Plaquemines County · map
Southern Seaplane Airport is a private airport owned by Southern Seaplane INC, 2 miles northwest of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 0 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 3,200 feet of asphalt. It has 1 water landing area. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 65LA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Southern Seaplane INC
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1977
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02W/20W | 5,000 × 100 ft | Water | |
| 02/20 | 3,200 × 40 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 02W: trees 60 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
- Runway 20W: trees 40 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 02: canal 15 ft high 50 ft from the end
- Runway 20: power line 80 ft high 2,500 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Belle Chasse from the FAA register
31 aircraft are registered to owners in Belle Chasse, Louisiana: 15 piston singles, 8 helicopters, 5 piston twins, 2 turboprops, 1 business jet. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Conflict of aircraft operations with nas new orleans as outlined in airspace study 74-SW-177-NRA. sealane determination no objection.
- FAA recommends this airport not be charted.
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.