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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100LL avgas; the services card below
- 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
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Also here
- beach gear
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Lakefront Airport (11 nm north), Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (14 nm northwest), South Lafourche Leonard Miller JR Airport (28 nm southwest), Slidell Airport (31 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 Louisiana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
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:
- Boos Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 13 miles away
- Jpl Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 13 miles away
- New Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 13 miles away
- Pelican Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 13 miles away
Charter operators and airlines based in Belle Chasse:
- Panther Helicopters INC 6 aircraft on the certificate Panther Helicopters operates helicopter services from Belle Chasse, Louisiana, serving the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas.
- Southern Seaplane, INC. 5 aircraft on the certificate Southern Seaplane, Inc.
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 · 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. 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 Belle Chasse 31 aircraft · 15 piston singles, 8 helicopters, 5 piston twins
- Southern Seaplane INC 8 aircraft in town
- Panther Helicopters INC 6 aircraft in town
- P & M Aero LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Panther Helicopters INC 6 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Southern Seaplane, INC. 5 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Boos Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Jpl Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- New Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 5 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/65LA.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 October 28, 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.