Covington-Vincent Airport
LA87 · Covington, Louisiana · St Tammany County · map
Covington-Vincent Airport is a private airport owned by Covington-Vincent Pilots Assoc, 3 miles northwest of Covington, Louisiana, 35 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,400 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 LA87
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Covington-Vincent Pilots Assoc
- Elevation
- 35 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1974
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,400 × 200 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: trees 30 ft high 900 ft from the end
- Runway 36: trees 50 ft high 600 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Hammond Northshore Regional (14 nm west), Slidell Airport (20 nm southeast), George R Carr Memorial Air Field (24 nm northeast), Picayune Municipal (26 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: St. Tammany Regional (9 nm southeast), Hammond Northshore Regional (14 nm west), Slidell Airport (20 nm southeast), George R Carr Memorial Air Field (24 nm northeast).
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 Covington from the FAA register
45 aircraft are registered to owners in Covington, Louisiana: 37 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 2 drones, 2 business jets. 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, 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
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Hammond Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Covington, 11 miles away Hammond Flying Club is a flying club located at Hammond Northshore Regional Airport (KHDC) on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana.
- Hot Springs Flyers INC 1 aircraft · Covington, 11 miles away
- Two Paddy Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Covington, 11 miles away
Repair stations in Covington:
- Nextgen Aviation NextGen Aviation Services is an FAA Part 145 heavy maintenance repair station founded in 2020 in Chino, California.
Companies in the same town as this airport, 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 airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Covington 45 aircraft · 37 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 2 piston twins
- Bill Mcgowan INC 2 aircraft in town
- Hammond Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Hot Springs Flyers INC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Two Paddy Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Nextgen Aviation · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 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 3,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/LA87.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 30, 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.