Cochran County
F85 · Morton, Texas · Cochran County · map
Cochran County is a public-use airport owned by Cochran County, 2 miles east of Morton, Texas, 3,747 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 2,710 feet of asphalt. It has 2 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F85
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Cochran County
- Elevation
- 3,747 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
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1970
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,710 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 1,775 × 39 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 04: threshold displaced 160 ft, road 15 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 22: VASI, two boxes on the left, road 15 ft high 420 ft from the end
- Runway 35: road 15 ft high 300 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,000, 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 Morton from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Morton, TX as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- 4171 feet above sea level, 399 feet above ground level tower, 1.5 NM southwest.
- Runway closed night.
- 15 feet road, 116 feet dstc, 135 feet L.
- Approach ratio 18:1 at displaced threshold.
- Extensive cracking, vegetation growing through.
- Runway 4/22 medium-intensity runway lights out of service indfly.
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.