Alpine-Casparis Municipal
E38 · Alpine, Texas · Brewster County · map
Alpine-Casparis Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Alpine, 2 miles northwest of Alpine, Texas, 4,514 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01/19, is 6,002 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1 with additive) and about 40 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 13,186 takeoffs and landings a year. About 3 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA E38
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Alpine
- Elevation
- 4,514 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm; Saturday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- On the chart
- El Paso sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1937
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 6,002 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 5,018 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, power line 30 ft high 1,340 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, fence 4 ft high 295 ft from the end
- Runway 05: fence 10 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 23: road 15 ft high 537 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| E38 and aWOS-3 | 119.025 | |
| Fort Stockton Center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.875 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 432-837-9613.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 13,186, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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 Alpine from the FAA register
30 aircraft are registered to owners in Alpine, Texas: 22 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 2 helicopters, 1 gyroplane. 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
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 preset low intst; to incr intst and to activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- City/amgr.
- PAPI runway 01 does not provide obstruction clnc beyond 2.0 NM from threshold.
- Self service fuel available 24 hours.
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.