Fabens Airport
E35 · Fabens, Texas · El Paso County · map
Fabens Airport is a public-use airport owned by El Paso County, 1 mile northeast of Fabens, Texas, 3,680 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 4,197 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA E35
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- El Paso County
- Elevation
- 3,680 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- El Paso sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 4,197 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 173 ft, fence 8 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left, ant 102 ft high 1,950 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Fabens from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Fabens, Texas: 2 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 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 · 11 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
- Activate rotating beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Rising terrain east of runway 08/26.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- 8 feet fence, 0-199 feet dstc, 125 feet L/R.
- PAPI out of service.
- PAPI out of service.
- Approach ratio 60:1 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.