Orange County
ORG · KORG · Orange, Texas · Orange County · map
Orange County is a public-use airport owned by Orange County, 3 miles southwest of Orange, Texas, 13 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 5,500 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 23 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 12,470 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KORG · observed 6:10 pm CDT (23:10 UTC), 20 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northeast (020°) at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: scattered clouds at 7,000 feet, scattered clouds at 8,500 feet
- Temperature 85°F (30°C), dew point 70°F (21°C)
- Altimeter 29.89 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KORG 062310Z AUTO 02003KT 10SM SCT070 SCT085 30/21 A2989 RMK AO2 T02970209 PWINO
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA ORG · ICAO KORG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Orange County
- Elevation
- 13 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- M to F, 7:00 am to 5:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1946
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 5,500 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 3,000 × 50 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 04: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 35 ft high 425 ft from the end
- Runway 22: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 45 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 13: tree on the approach
- Runway 31: trees 60 ft high 800 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 121.3 | |
| Org and aWOS-3 | 118.975 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 409-670-9591.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 12,470, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Orange from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Orange, Texas: 12 piston singles. 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 Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 9 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
- Predates act.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 04/22 preset low intst; to incr intst and activate runway end identifier lights runway 4 and 22 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 13/31 closed permission.
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.