Franklin County
F53 · Mount Vernon, Texas · Franklin County · map
Franklin County is a public-use airport owned by Franklin County, 2 miles northwest of Mount Vernon, Texas, 412 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 3,900 feet of asphalt. It has about 16 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 7,200 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F53
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Franklin County
- Elevation
- 412 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1987
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,900 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 36 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 46 ft high 1,587 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Cumby and center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.025 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 7,200, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Mount Vernon from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Mount Vernon, Texas: 4 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 · 2 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
- Provided a 90-DAY notice is furnished FAA prior to activation of airport.
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.