Athens Municipal
F44 · Athens, Texas · Henderson County · map
Athens Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Athens, 3 miles southeast of Athens, Texas, 444 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,988 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F44
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Athens
- Elevation
- 444 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; 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
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1958
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,988 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 66 ft high 985 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, trees 55 ft high 700 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| F44 and aWOS-3PT | 119.6 | |
| Tyler and center (remote transmitter) Low | 135.25 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 903-670-1247.
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 Athens from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Athens, Texas: 17 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 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 · 6 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
- Public works director.
- 11 feet road 160 feet dstc, 235 feet L.
- 12-25 feet trees on fenceline 0-200 feet dstc, 247 R.
- Also 15 feet road at 160 dstc, 235 L, 0:1.
- Feral hogs on and in the vicinity of airport.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.