Tensas Flying Service Airport
LA53 · St. Joseph, Louisiana · Tensas County · map
Tensas Flying Service Airport is a private airport owned by Tensas Flying Services, LLC, 5 miles northwest of St. Joseph, Louisiana, 96 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 3,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LA53
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Tensas Flying Services, LLC
- Elevation
- 96 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- February to October, Monday to Saturday, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 2009
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 3,000 × 80 ft | Grass |
- Runway 20: right-hand traffic pattern
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Hardy-Anders Fld/Natchez-Adams County (22 nm south), Vicksburg Municipal (23 nm northeast), Vicksburg Tallulah Regional (25 nm northeast), Jonesville Airport (36 nm southwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Tensas Parish Airport (1 nm east), Hardy-Anders Fld/Natchez-Adams County (22 nm south), Vicksburg Municipal (23 nm northeast), Winnsboro Municipal (25 nm northwest).
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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided the Tensas flying Service airport use the west side of the airport traffic pattern and the Tensas parish airport use the east side of the airport traffic pattern.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in St. Joseph from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list St. Joseph, LA as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- 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/LA53.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 29, 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.