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
- 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
- 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
Aircraft registered in St. Joseph from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list St. Joseph, LA as the owner's town.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
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.