Houston Memorial
M48 · Houston, Missouri · Texas County · map
Houston Memorial is a public-use airport owned by the City of Houston, 1 mile northwest of Houston, Missouri, 1,195 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,500 feet of concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 11 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,755 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA M48
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Houston
- Elevation
- 1,195 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Kansas City sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 0E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,500 × 60 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 16: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 57 ft high 1,250 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Richland and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.35 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,755, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Houston from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Houston, Missouri: 5 piston singles, 1 piston twin. 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 Missouri.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Est. Prior to 1959
- Public bus service available MON-FRI 7:30 am to 4:00 pm.
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 preset on low intst to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runways 16 and 34; PAPI runway 16 and 34 - the common traffic frequency.
- City clerk
- Crop dusting aircraft and ultralight activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.