Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport
AFW · KAFW · Fort Worth, Texas · Tarrant County · map
Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fort Worth, 14 miles north of Fort Worth, Texas, 723 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 16R/34L, is 11,125 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AFW · ICAO KAFW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fort Worth
- Elevation
- 723 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1989
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16R/34L | 11,125 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 16L/34R | 11,000 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 16R: PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, 10,410 ft available for landing, rr 19 ft high 607 ft from the end
- Runway 34L: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 716 ft, 10,409 ft available for landing, fence 4 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 16L: ILS with DME, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2), right-hand traffic pattern, 10,600 ft available for landing
- Runway 34R: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), power line 182 ft high 7,920 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 126.925 | Alliance |
| Clearance delivery | 128.725 | Alliance |
| Ground | 132.65 | Alliance |
| Tower Helicopters | 120.825 | Alliance |
| Tower | 135.15 | Alliance |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Dallas Area Dp South | 118.1 | Alliance |
| Sasie and star · Truuk Rnav Star | 124.3 | Alliance |
| Dodje and star · Reeko and star | 125.2 | Alliance |
| Likes and star · Motza and star · Wesat and star South; North | 125.8 | Alliance |
| Dodje and star | 125.9 | Alliance |
| Likes and star North | 135.975 | Alliance |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 817-491-6188.
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Aircraft registered in Fort Worth from the FAA register
1,876 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Worth, Texas: 993 airliners and large jets, 531 piston singles, 145 helicopters, 64 business jets, 53 piston twins. 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 · 17 since 1982, 1 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
- Prior arrangements required for airframe or power plant repairs for design group iii and above.
- Provided conditions contained in 08/01/89 ltr to MR. david ivory are adhered to.
- Arinc frequency 129.75 available.
- +4 feet fence 0 feet 250 feet L; approach ratio 0:1 based on displaced thld.
- Approach ratio 0:1 based on displaced thld; +5 feet fence 0 feet, 250 feet R.
- Approach ratio 50:1 to displaced thld.
- Flight notification service (adcus) available.
- Portions of taxiway H movement area east of taxiway a is not visible from the control tower.
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.