Shank N Bank Airport
TX0 · La Ward, Texas · Jackson County · map
Shank N Bank Airport is a public-use airport owned by Lele Golf, LLC, 7 miles southwest of La Ward, Texas, 29 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 5,002 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TX0
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Lele Golf, LLC
- Elevation
- 29 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 2017
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,002 × 75 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 28 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, tree 18 ft high 560 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in La Ward from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in La Ward, Texas: 2 helicopters, 1 piston single. 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 09 and 27; PAPI runway 09 and 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport physical addr. 19584 south.H. 172, port lavaca, TX.
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.