Dallas Executive
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Dallas Executive is a public-use airport owned by the City of Dallas, 6 miles southwest of Dallas, Texas, 660 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 7,136 feet of concrete. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 358 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 87,862 takeoffs and landings a year. About 10 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KRBD · observed 4:53 pm CDT (21:53 UTC), 60 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the east-northeast (070°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 85°F (29°C), dew point 50°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 29.96 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 KRBD 062153Z 07007KT 10SM CLR 29/10 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP137 T02940100
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 RBD · ICAO KRBD
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Dallas
- Elevation
- 660 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1948
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 7,136 × 100 ft | Concrete, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 3,800 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,085 ft, 5,537 ft available for landing, trees 42 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 31: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 500 ft, 6,601 ft available for landing, road 7 ft high 547 ft from the end
- Runway 17: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 18 ft high 770 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 127.25 | Executive |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 126.35 | Executive |
| Clearance delivery | 118.625 | Executive |
| Ground | 119.475 | Executive |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Dallas Area Dp | 125.2 | Executive |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Executive |
| Gregs and star · Herbz and star · Jfrye and star | 118.1 | Executive |
| Fingr and star | 124.3 | Executive |
| Fingr and star · Slant and star | 125.275 | Executive |
| Dodje and star | 125.9 | Executive |
| Swvay and star | 135.975 | Executive |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 214-330-5317.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 87,862, 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 Dallas from the FAA register
1,853 aircraft are registered to owners in Dallas, Texas: 826 airliners and large jets, 619 piston singles, 212 business jets, 84 turboprops, 63 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 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
- PRE-DATES act.
- Birds and wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- When the control tower closed medium-intensity runway lights runways 13/31& 17/35 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel available 24 hour.
- 25 feet trees, 0-199 feet dstc, 399 feet R. 15 feet concrete wall, 0 feet dstc, 385 L.
- Approach slope 0:1 to displaced thld ovr 20 feet trees, 0 feet dstc, 395 feet R.
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.