Soaring Club Of Houston
89TA · Waller, Texas · Waller County · map
Soaring Club Of Houston is a private gliderport owned by Soaring Club of Houston, 12 miles southwest of Waller, Texas, 308 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 89TA
- Kind
- Gliderport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Soaring Club of Houston
- Elevation
- 308 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- weekends, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1996
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,200 × 500 ft | Grass |
- Runway 35: trees on the approach
Aircraft registered in Waller from the FAA register
120 aircraft are registered to owners in Waller, Texas: 88 piston singles, 12 gliders, 7 helicopters, 6 business jets, 4 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this gliderport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this gliderport 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 gliderport NTSB records · 7 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
- Provided all traffic pattern operations are rstrd to west side of runway.
- Frequency 123.3 used at airport.
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.