Thibodaux Municipal
L83 · Thibodaux, Louisiana · Terrebonne County · map
Thibodaux Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Thibodaux, 3 miles south of Thibodaux, Louisiana, 9 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 2,999 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 11 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,500 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L83
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Thibodaux
- Elevation
- 9 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 2,999 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: trees 79 ft high 637 ft from the end
- Runway 26: threshold displaced 90 ft, trees 73 ft high 1,754 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,500, 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 Thibodaux from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Thibodaux, Louisiana: 13 piston singles, 2 drones, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. 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 Louisiana.
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
- Runway end identifier lights runway 08/26; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Approach ratio 14:1 to displaced threshold.
- Runway 08/26 agriculture washdown pad 500 feet north of runway at midfld.
- Trees 60 feet tall; 160 feet north and south of centerline pent the 7:1 trsnl slp runway 08.
- Wildlife on or near the runway safety area
- 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.