Mustang Beach Airport
RAS · KRAS · Port Aransas, Texas · Nueces County · map
Mustang Beach Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Port Aransas, 2 miles southwest of Port Aransas, Texas, 5 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,482 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RAS · ICAO KRAS
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Port Aransas
- Elevation
- 5 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1965
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,482 × 70 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left, power line 38 ft high 465 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 125.4 | |
| Ras and aWOS-3 | 118.425 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 361-749-0537.
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 Port Aransas from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Port Aransas, Texas: 7 piston singles, 3 turboprops, 1 helicopter. 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 · 4 since 1982, 1 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
- May be exempt under grandfather clause.
- Runway 12, 3 feet drop off 40 from runway end.
- Fuel 24 hour self serv.
- Obstruction clnc slope 30:1 to displaced threshold.
- Runway 30, 36 feet power line 1135 feet dstc. 50 feet power line 1770 feet dstc.
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.