San Augustine County
78R · San Augustine, Texas · San Augustine County · map
San Augustine County is a public-use airport owned by San Augustine County, 3 miles west of San Augustine, Texas, 443 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,800 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 78R
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- San Augustine County
- Elevation
- 443 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,800 × 50 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 124 ft, trees 65 ft high 388 ft from the end
- Runway 35: fence 10 ft high 210 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in San Augustine from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in San Augustine, Texas: 1 piston twin, 1 piston single. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset low intst, to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- County judge
- 10 feet brush, 130 feet dstc, 125 feet L/R.
- Ctlng obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slope. Approach slope 7:1 to displaced thld.
- Cracking, potholes loose stones.
- No line of sight between runway ends.
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.