Eagle'S Nest Estates Airport
T56 · Midlothian, Texas · Ellis County · map
Eagle'S Nest Estates Airport is a public-use airport owned by Eagles Nest Property Owners Assn, 4 miles northeast of Midlothian, Texas, 780 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,216 feet of concrete.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA T56
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Eagles Nest Property Owners Assn
- Elevation
- 780 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1985
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,216 × 36 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 17: tri-color on the left, threshold displaced 332 ft, trees 20 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 35: tri-color on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 272 ft, road 23 ft high 211 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.975 |
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Aircraft registered in Midlothian from the FAA register
184 aircraft are registered to owners in Midlothian, Texas: 134 piston singles, 17 gliders, 12 piston twins, 9 business jets, 8 helicopters. 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 · 1 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35, runway end identifier lightss runway 17 and 35, tril runway 17 and 35 - 122.975.
- Prop. Owners assn pres.
- Runway 35 rises 12 feet from pavement end to displaced thld.
- Strobes mark thresholds.
- 5 feet fence, 40 feet dstc, 125 feet L/R; 15 road, 51 feet dstc, 125 feet L/R.
- 35 feet trees, 20 feet dstc, 115 feet R.
- 37 feet poles 401 feet from displaced threshold, 125 feet L and R of centerline.
- Airport name and the common traffic frequency marked on runway.
- Obstruction clnc 0:1 to displaced threshold ovr 20 feet hangar, 165 feet dstc, 115 feet R; also 0 feet dstc, 103 feet L.
- No line of sight between runway ends.
- Activate runway lts for all operations due to line of sight limitations.
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.