Rooke Field
RFG · KRFG · Refugio, Texas · Refugio County · map
Rooke Field is a public-use airport owned by Refugio County, 3 miles west of Refugio, Texas, 54 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 4,361 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 16 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 3,900 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RFG · ICAO KRFG
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Refugio County
- Elevation
- 54 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 4,361 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 32: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 166 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 3,900, 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 Refugio from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Refugio, Texas: 5 piston singles, 3 gliders, 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.
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 · 5 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
- Predates act.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 sunset to sunrise preset low. To incr intst - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel available 24 hours self service.
- No line of sight ltd between runway ends.
- Approach slope 36:1 from displaced threshold ovr 15 feet road 541 feet dstc; 22:1 ovr 40 feet tower, 882 feet dstc, 125 feet R.
- Glider actvty 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.