Menard County
T50 · Menard, Texas · Menard County · map
Menard County is a public-use airport owned by Menard County, 3 miles northwest of Menard, Texas, 1,933 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 15/33, is 4,100 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA T50
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Menard County
- Elevation
- 1,933 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1959
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/33 | 4,100 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 15: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 480 ft, trees 18 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 33: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 12 ft high 394 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Menard from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Menard, Texas: 2 piston singles, 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 15/33 preset low intst; to incr intst activate the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 15 and 33 operators continuously.
- 8 feet fence 130 feet from threshold.
- Markings FADED-BARELY visible.
- Markings FADED-BARELY visible.
- PAPI out of service
- PAPI out of service.
- Approach ratio 26:1 at displaced threshold ovr 25 feet tree, 660 feet dstc, 180 feet L.
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.