Nueces County
RBO · KRBO · Robstown, Texas · Nueces County · map
Nueces County is a public-use airport owned by the County of Nueces, 2 miles southwest of Robstown, Texas, 80 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 3,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A with additive) and about 37 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 9,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KRBO · observed 6:15 pm CDT (23:15 UTC), 15 minutes ago
- Wind from the east-northeast (070°) at 9 knots
- Sky: a broken layer at 6,000 feet
- Altimeter 29.87 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 KRBO 062315Z AUTO 07009KT BKN060 A2987 RMK AO2 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 RBO · ICAO KRBO
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Nueces
- Elevation
- 80 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,700 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: road 15 ft high 528 ft from the end
- Runway 31: trees 20 ft high 1,030 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.9 | |
| Rbo and aWOS-3 | 118.175 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 361-767-1982.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 9,000, 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 Robstown from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Robstown, Texas: 5 piston singles, 4 turboprops, 3 business jets, 2 piston twins, 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.
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 · 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
- 1049 feet above sea level towers 3 NM east of airport.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 preset low intst; to incr intst activate - 122.8.
- 100 LL and jet a available 24 hours SELF-SERVE only.
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.