LA Porte Municipal
T41 · La Porte, Texas · Harris County · map
LA Porte Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of la Porte, 3 miles northwest of La Porte, Texas, 25 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 4,165 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 71 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 29,050 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA T41
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of la Porte
- Elevation
- 25 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1943
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,165 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 2,998 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 190 ft, trees 50 ft high 1,115 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 402 ft, fence 6 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 05: pole 44 ft high 915 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.6 | |
| Alexandria and dp · Approach and departure · Bltwy Rnav Dp | 134.45 | |
| Tshirt and star · Tshrt and star | 119.175 | |
| Tkniq and star | 119.625 | |
| Hudzy and star · Ohiio and star · Wappl and star | 120.05 | |
| T41 and aWOS-3PT | 120.275 | |
| Cesan and star | 121.3 | |
| Blubell and star · Snday Rnav Star | 124.225 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 281-471-2206.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 29,050, 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 La Porte from the FAA register
27 aircraft are registered to owners in La Porte, Texas: 26 piston singles, 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 · 31 since 1982, 4 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 the act.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 12; PAPI runway 12; medium-intensity runway lights runways 05/23 and 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Director of public works.
- Fuel 24 hour self serve.
- 6 feet fence 199 feet dstc 246 feet left of centerline.
- PAPI runway 12 unusable beyond 8 degrees L of runway centerline.
- Obstruction clnc slope 26:1 to displaced thld ovr 30 feet poles, 927 feet dstc.
- Obstruction clnc slope 30:1 to displaced thld.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.