Zapata County
APY · KAPY · Zapata, Texas · Zapata County · map
Zapata County is a public-use airport owned by Zapata County, 4 miles northeast of Zapata, Texas, 422 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KAPY · observed 5:35 pm CDT (22:35 UTC), 17 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northwest (330°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a broken layer at 7,500 feet, a broken layer at 10,000 feet
- Temperature 93°F (34°C), dew point 59°F (15°C)
- Altimeter 29.88 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KAPY 062235Z AUTO 33006KT 10SM BKN075 BKN100 34/15 A2988 RMK AO2 T03400150
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA APY · ICAO KAPY
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Zapata County
- Elevation
- 422 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1987
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 5,000 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: threshold displaced 112 ft, trees 18 ft high 277 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 113 ft, trees 20 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Apy and aWOS-3 | 118.225 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 956-765-4069.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Zapata from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Zapata, Texas: 1 piston single. 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 preset med intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- 12 feet trees, 190 feet dstc,125 feet L/R.
- 20 feet trees, 195 feet dstc, 125 feet L/R.
- Obstruction clearance slope 8:1 to displaced threshold.
- Obstruction clearance slope 16:1 to displaced threshold.
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.