Brooks County
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Brooks County is a public-use airport owned by Brooks County, 2 miles southeast of Falfurrias, Texas, 112 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 6,006 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BKS · ICAO KBKS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Brooks County
- Elevation
- 112 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- November to February, every day, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; March to October, Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1949
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 6,006 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 3,018 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent |
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left, tree 36 ft high 1,046 ft from the end
- Runway 35: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 14: trees 25 ft high 450 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.9 | |
| Bks and aWOS-3PT | 118.125 | |
| Sarita and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.15 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 361-325-4055.
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 Falfurrias from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Falfurrias, Texas: 7 helicopters, 1 piston twin, 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.
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 · 1 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
- 9 feet fence located approximately 900 feet north of runway 17.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 preset low intst. To incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 17; PAPI runways 17 and 35 - the common traffic frequency.
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.