Resaca Airstrip Airport
80TX · Brownsville, Texas · Cameron County · map
Resaca Airstrip Airport is a private airport, 4 miles west of Brownsville, Texas, 20 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 1,000 feet of grass.
The FAA lists this airport as closed indefinitely.
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 80TX
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 20 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 1,000 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 31: plines on the approach
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: Brownsville/South Padre Island International (2 nm southwest), Cameron County (15 nm north), Valley International (22 nm northwest), Mid Valley International (34 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Brownsville/South Padre Island International (2 nm southwest), Cameron County (15 nm north), Valley International (22 nm northwest), Mid Valley International (34 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
- Personal USE-VFR only; no takeoffs to east and no landings to west; operations to be conducted only under wind/weather conditions favorable to safe operations.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Brownsville from the FAA register
49 aircraft are registered to owners in Brownsville, Texas: 36 piston singles, 6 piston twins, 4 business jets, 2 turboprops, 1 airliner. 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 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:
- R G V Flight Academy LLC 2 aircraft · Bayview, 14 miles away
Repair stations in Brownsville:
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 Brownsville 49 aircraft · 36 piston singles, 6 piston twins, 4 business jets
- Southmost Aviation INC 2 aircraft in town
- R G V Flight Academy LLC 2 aircraft · flight school
- Cv-580 LLC · repair station
- 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/80TX.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.