Hunt Airport
9R5 · Portland, Texas · San Patricio County · map
Hunt Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles northwest of Portland, Texas, 38 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 14L/32R, is 2,350 feet of asphalt and dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 9R5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 38 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14L/32R | 2,350 × 20 ft | Asphalt and dirt, poor | |
| 14R/32L | 1,400 × 60 ft | Grass and gravel, poor |
- Runway 14L: right-hand traffic pattern, road 18 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 32R: brush on the approach
- Runway 14R: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Portland from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Portland, Texas: 9 piston singles, 2 helicopters, 1 piston twin. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 0 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
- Established prior to 1959.
- Limited line of sight between thresholds; southern 600 feet of runway drops off approxly 8 feet.
- Runway closed indefinitely.
- Non-standard threshold bar 183 feet from runway end.
- Obstruction clearance slope exceeds a 45 degree angle.
- Has severe grass encroachment, pot holes and loose gravel on runway.
- Heavy rutting along entire runway length
- Runway 32 R, first 200 feet grass.
- Runway 32R gnd drops off approx 10 feet at threshold.
- Wind turbines north of airport.
- Crops on both sides of runway.
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.