Ghsa-Wallis Glideport
TE71 · Wallis, Texas · Austin County · map
Ghsa-Wallis Glideport is a private gliderport owned by the Greater Houston Soaring Assn, 3 miles southeast of Wallis, Texas, 127 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,000 feet of grass. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TE71
- Kind
- Gliderport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Greater Houston Soaring Assn
- Elevation
- 127 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Friday to Sunday, 9:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Fuel and services
- 100 octane avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 2000
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,000 × 125 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: threshold displaced 1,000 ft, power line 50 ft high 1,500 ft from the end
Aircraft registered in Wallis from the FAA register
4 aircraft are registered to owners in Wallis, Texas: 4 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this gliderport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this gliderport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Houston Executive (13 nm northeast), Lane Airpark (14 nm east), Eagle Lake Airport (15 nm west), Sugar Land Regional (19 nm east).
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.
Accidents and incidents at or near this gliderport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Frequency 123.5 available.
Connections how this gliderport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Wallis 4 aircraft · 4 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this gliderport 4 since 1982 · 2 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,068 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 392 landing places
- Texas 29,860 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TE71.json.
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 9, 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.