Big Spring/Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport
BPG · KBPG · Big Spring, Texas · Howard County · map
Big Spring/Mc Mahon-Wrinkle Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Big Spring, 2 miles southwest of Big Spring, Texas, 2,573 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 8,803 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA BPG · ICAO KBPG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Big Spring
- Elevation
- 2,573 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 8,803 × 100 ft | Concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 06/24 | 4,601 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the left, short approach lights (SSALS), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 35: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, fence 5 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Bpg and aWOS-3PT | 118.025 | |
| Big Spring Center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.7 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 432-264-7475.
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 Big Spring from the FAA register
29 aircraft are registered to owners in Big Spring, Texas: 19 piston singles, 4 business jets, 3 piston twins, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop. 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 · 3 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
- Medium-intensity runway lights runways 06/24 and 17/35 preset low intst; to incr intst and activate ssals runway 17 - the common traffic frequency.
- Sandhill cranes xng in the Spring and fall.
- Prairie dogs on runways and taxiways.
- 100 LL and JET-A full and self serve.
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.