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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

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
On the chart: Brownsville sectional
Magnetic variation: 7E

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

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

Aircraft registered in Brownsville from the FAA register

50 aircraft are registered to owners in Brownsville, Texas: 37 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:

Southmost Aviation INC 2

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

Brownsville/South Padre Island International BRO · 2 nm southwest Cameron County PIL · 15 nm north Valley International HRL · 22 nm northwest Columbia Valley Regional Heliport 2XS0 · 7 nm northwest · private Drennan Farm Airport 92TA · 12 nm north · private Reynolds Ranch Airport 73TA · 14 nm north · private U S Coast Guard Station Heliport TX57 · 16 nm northeast · private Kornegay Private Airport 53XS · 17 nm northwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

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.

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.