St. Charles Airport
LS40 · Ama, Louisiana · St Charles County · map
St. Charles Airport is a private airport owned by St. Charles Land CORP, 1 mile southeast of Ama, Louisiana, 13 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,900 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LS40
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- St. Charles Land CORP
- Elevation
- 13 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1987
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,900 × 125 ft | Grass | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: trees 50 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 35: power lines 50 ft high 400 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Aircraft registered in Ama from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Ama, Louisiana: 1 piston single. 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 · 3 since 1982, 2 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
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 by 5 clicks - the common traffic frequency.
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.