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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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 and services
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas); the services card below
- 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 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, car gas (mogas)
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International (3 nm northeast), Lakefront Airport (14 nm east), Port Of South Louisiana Executive Regional (17 nm northwest), Houma-Terrebonne Airport (30 nm southwest).
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
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 by 5 clicks - the common traffic frequency.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, 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:
- Learn To Fly Nola LLC 1 aircraft · New Orleans, 3 miles away Learn To Fly New Orleans is a flight school based at New Orleans Lakefront Airport (KNEW) offering Part 61 flight training for private pilot, instrument rating, and commercial pilot certificates.
- New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · New Orleans, 3 miles away New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training operates aerial sightseeing tours and discovery flights (introductory flight instruction) in the New Orleans area.
- Boos Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 7 miles away
- Jpl Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 7 miles away
- New Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 7 miles away
- Pelican Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Metairie, 7 miles away
- Ragwing Flying Club LLC 1 aircraft · Des Allemands, 15 miles away
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 · 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. 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 Ama 1 aircraft · 1 piston singles
- Learn To Fly Nola LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- Boos Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 3 since 1982 · 2 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/LS40.json.
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 26, 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.