Fort Worth Spinks Airport
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Fort Worth Spinks Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fort Worth, 14 miles south of Fort Worth, Texas, 700 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 18R/36L, is 6,002 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FWS · ICAO KFWS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fort Worth
- Elevation
- 700 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; 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
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1988
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18R/36L | 6,002 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 3,660 × 60 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, power line 100 ft high 4,150 ft from the end
- Runway 36L: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), trees 42 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
- Runway 36R: right-hand traffic pattern, gnd 8 ft high 320 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.625 | Spinks |
| UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Fws and aWOS-3PT | 120.025 | Spinks |
| Ground | 119.475 | Spinks |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Dallas Area Dp North | 135.975 | Spinks |
| Motza and star · Wesat and star South | 118.1 | Spinks |
| Sasie and star · Truuk Rnav Star | 124.3 | Spinks |
| Dodje and star · Reeko and star | 125.2 | Spinks |
| Likes and star · Motza and star · Wesat and star South; North | 125.8 | Spinks |
| Dodje and star | 125.9 | Spinks |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 817-426-4172.
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 Fort Worth from the FAA register
1,876 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Worth, Texas: 993 airliners and large jets, 531 piston singles, 145 helicopters, 64 business jets, 53 piston twins. 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 · 18 since 1982, 3 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
- Noise abatement procedure: avoid noise sensitive areas all quadrant of airport; maintain altitudes at or above 1000 feet above ground level over these areas.
- Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 36L - the common traffic frequency. When the control tower closed medium-intensity runway lights runway 18R/36L preset on med intst.
- 100LL full and SELF-SERVE.
- Available only durg daylight/VFR and dry weather surface conditions.
- Birds and wildlife in the vicinity of airport.
- Rotorcraft operations prohibited in self service fuel areas.
- Rotorcraft operations prohibited on taxiway a between taxiway H and taxiway A2.
- Helicopter skidding operations prohibited.
- Taxiway a unlighted.
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.