Valley International
HRL · KHRL · Harlingen, Texas · Cameron County · map
Valley International is a public-use airport owned by the City of Harlingen, 3 miles northeast of Harlingen, Texas, 36 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18R/36L, is 9,400 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HRL · ICAO KHRL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Harlingen
- Elevation
- 36 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- 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
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1943
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18R/36L | 9,400 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 7,257 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 5,950 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 36L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31: PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 18L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 36R: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 190 ft, 5,759 ft available for landing
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 119.3 | Harlingen |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Hrl and automated weather (ASOS) | 124.85 | Harlingen |
| Ground | 121.7 | Harlingen |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace | 120.7 | Harlingen |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 956-428-7297.
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 Harlingen from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Harlingen, Texas: 34 piston singles, 7 turboprops, 6 piston twins, 1 business jet. 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 · 9 since 1982, 2 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
- Migratory birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Dusk to dawn. When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18R, runway 31, runway 36L - the common traffic frequency.
- Unusable beyond 7 degreess right of centerline.
- When the control tower closed required rescue and firefighting (ARFF) through corpus approach or flight service.
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.