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Putty Ranch Airport

TA78 · Hico, Texas · Hamilton County · map

Putty Ranch Airport is a private airport, 2 miles southwest of Hico, Texas, 1,143 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,500 feet of grass. It has fuel (100LL avgas).

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks

The airport

Codes: FAA TA78
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 1,143 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Fuel and services: 100LL avgas; the services card below
On the chart: San Antonio sectional
Magnetic variation: 7E
In the FAA's files since: July 1979

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
17/35	3,500 × 60 ft	Grass

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel: 100LL avgas

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Stephenville Clark Regional (16 nm north), Hamilton Municipal (19 nm south), Comanche County-City (28 nm west), Granbury Regional (31 nm northeast).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Texas · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

For emergency use only.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in Hico from the FAA register

7 aircraft are registered to owners in Hico, Texas: 5 piston singles, 2 piston twins. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.

Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Dublin Municipal 9F0 · 15 nm northwest Stephenville Clark Regional SEP · 16 nm north Hamilton Municipal MNZ · 19 nm south Clifton Muni/Isenhower Field 7F7 · 27 nm east Comanche County-City MKN · 28 nm west Ray Smith Farm Airport 2TX2 · 4 nm northeast · private Little C Ranch Heliport 4TX9 · 5 nm northeast · private J F Ranch Airport 62XS · 5 nm northwest · private

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

In town

Aircraft registered in Hico 7 aircraft · 5 piston singles, 2 piston twins

Record

Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,056 in the last ten years

Around it

Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
Texas 29,943 aircraft registered

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TA78.json.

Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 29, 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.