Spicewood Airport
88R · Spicewood, Texas · Burnet County · map
Spicewood Airport is a public-use airport owned by Spicewood Airport and Pilots Assn, 2 miles east of Spicewood, Texas, 830 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 4,185 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 88R
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Spicewood Airport and Pilots Assn
- Elevation
- 830 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,185 × 38 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 464 ft, tree 30 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 35: trees 12 ft high 230 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Spicewood from the FAA register
64 aircraft are registered to owners in Spicewood, Texas: 54 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 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.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 14 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 25 feet trees 0-199 feet dstc air carriers approach.
- 10 feet rising trrn 35-125 feet left of centerline at threshold.
- Obstruction clearance slope 10:1 T0 displaced thld ovr 26 feet building, 270 feet dstc, 113 feet R.
- Airport closed at night except for helicopter, medical evacuation and military flights.
- Airport closed to jet and turbo jet aircraft, except for very light jets.
- Airport closed to tgl, ultralights and hang gliders.
- No line of sight between runway ends.
- Runway 17 - calm wind runway
- Rotorcraft remain above 500 above ground level north of runway 17 to avoid residential area.
- Rotorcraft practice and autorotation prohibited.
- Rotorcraft arrival and departure fly dctly to and from parking to avoid unnec LOW-LEVEL txg.
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.