Sandy Creek Airport
73TX · New Waverly, Texas · Walker County · map
Sandy Creek Airport is a private airport owned by Sandy Creek LLC, 2 miles northwest of New Waverly, Texas, 383 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,800 feet of 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 73TX
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Sandy Creek LLC
- Elevation
- 383 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2015
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,800 × 100 ft | Grass |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Huntsville Municipal (12 nm northwest), Conroe/North Houston Regional (13 nm south), Cleveland Municipal (28 nm southeast), David Wayne Hooks Memorial (31 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Huntsville Municipal (12 nm northwest), Conroe/North Houston Regional (13 nm south), Livingston Municipal (25 nm east), Cleveland Municipal (28 nm southeast).
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
- Rstrd use airport. See airport website for rstrns and required information prior to operations.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in New Waverly from the FAA register
36 aircraft are registered to owners in New Waverly, Texas: 32 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 gyroplane, 1 drone. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
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:
- Redemption Air Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Huntsville, 14 miles away
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
- Aircraft registered in New Waverly 36 aircraft · 32 piston singles, 1 piston twins, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Redemption Air Academy LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 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 29,943 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/73TX.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 29, 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.