Pelican Seaplane Base
LA38 · Slidell, Louisiana · St Tammany County · map
Pelican Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base, 2 miles northeast of Slidell, Louisiana, 0 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area. It has fuel (car gas (mogas)).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LA38
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- car gas (mogas); the services card below
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 2000
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18W/36W | 2,000 × 300 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- car gas (mogas)
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Slidell Airport (5 nm north), Picayune Municipal (15 nm northeast), Lakefront Airport (18 nm southwest), Stennis International (19 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Louisiana · avgas.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Slidell from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Slidell, Louisiana: 35 piston singles, 5 turboprops, 3 piston twins, 3 helicopters, 1 drone. Not every one of them is based at this seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Louisiana.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Charter operators and airlines based in Slidell:
- Air Reldan, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate Air Reldan, Inc.
Companies in the same town as this seaplane base, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base
Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this seaplane base.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Slidell 48 aircraft · 35 piston singles, 5 turboprops, 3 piston twins
- St Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District 3 aircraft in town
- New Orleans Aviation LLC 3 aircraft in town
- Sky Charter LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Air Reldan, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/LA38.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.