Whatley Flying Service Airport
8TA1 · Seadrift, Texas · Calhoun County · map
Whatley Flying Service Airport is a private airport, 4 miles southeast of Seadrift, Texas, 20 feet above sea level. Its one runway, N/S, is 3,100 feet of grvl-turf.
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 8TA1
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 20 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1981
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| N/S | 3,100 × 60 ft | Grvl-turf |
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: Calhoun County (11 nm north), Shank N Bank Airport (22 nm northeast), Victoria Regional (24 nm north), Aransas County (28 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Calhoun County (11 nm north), Victoria Regional (24 nm north), Aransas County (28 nm southwest), Rooke Field (32 nm west).
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
- 3000 feet gravel covered with grass; remainder grass.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Seadrift from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Seadrift, Texas: 4 piston singles, 1 helicopter. 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, 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:
- Gateway Flight Center LLC 3 aircraft · Port Lavaca, 13 miles away Gateway Flight Center is a flight school and FBO at Calhoun County Airport in Port Lavaca, Texas.
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 Seadrift 5 aircraft · 4 piston singles, 1 helicopters
- Gateway Flight Center LLC 3 aircraft · flight school
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,244 since 1982 · 1,064 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 29,958 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/8TA1.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 November 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.