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Bud Dryden Airport

TX05 · Austin, Texas · Travis County · map

Bud Dryden Airport is a private airport, 6 miles southeast of Austin, Texas, 500 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 2,300 feet of grass.

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 TX05
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
500 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
unattended
Fuel and services
no fuel reported; the services card below
On the chart
San Antonio sectional
Magnetic variation
6E
In the FAA's files since
November 2000

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0119N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
01/192,300 × 60 ftGrass
  • Runway 19: threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 25 ft high 50 ft from the end

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Austin-Bergstrom International (5 nm southwest), Austin Executive (9 nm north), Taylor Municipal (21 nm northeast), San Marcos Regional (25 nm southwest).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Austin-Bergstrom International (5 nm southwest), Austin Executive (9 nm north), Lakeway Airpark (20 nm west), Taylor Municipal (21 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

  • Provided loa with Austin the control tower is developed for operations at this facillity.

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

Aircraft registered in Austin from the FAA register

789 aircraft are registered to owners in Austin, Texas: 482 piston singles, 87 business jets, 51 drones, 47 turboprops, 44 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

  • Above and Beyond Aviation LLC 14 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away Above and Beyond Aviation is a flight school and aircraft rental operator based in Austin, Texas.
  • Black Hound Aviation LLC 4 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away Black Hound Aviation is a flight school based in San Marcos, Texas, serving the Austin and Central Texas area.
  • Chandelle Flying Club 3 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away Chandelle Flying Club is a not-for-profit flying club based in Austin, Texas, established in 1981 to provide affordable flying for member-shareholders.
  • Cherokee Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away Cherokee Flyers is a Part 61 aeroclub founded in 1999 that provides flight training and aircraft rentals at Veracruz Regional Airport (KVRB) in Austin, Texas.
  • 472Rv Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away
  • Acme Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away
  • Air Cooled Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away
  • Austin Aviators Flight Club 1 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away
  • Austin Mooney Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Austin, 5 miles away

Charter operators and airlines based in Austin:

  • Paradigm Jet Management, Inc. 20 aircraft on the certificate Paradigm Jet Management provides worldwide executive aircraft charter, aircraft management services, aircraft maintenance, hangar storage, and acquisition consulting.
  • Owyhee Air Research, LLC. 4 aircraft on the certificate Owyhee Air Research provides aerial imaging and mapping services for wildlife surveys, wildfire reconnaissance, photogrammetry, and natural resource data acquisition.
  • Travis County EMS 3 aircraft on the certificate
  • Bluvista Aviation LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate
  • Saturn Aviation, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate Saturn Aviation is a Part 135 charter operator and aircraft management company based at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) in Austin, Texas, since 2008.
  • Air & Opportunity Aviation, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate
  • Air Exec, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in Austin:

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

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

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 2 fatal

1997-07-20FTW97FA274 · Hillam Rans S-9 N1678N · accident · 1 killed
1995-11-11FTW96LA042 · Lodge Rv-4 N30RV · accident · serious injuries
1991-03-24FTW91LA057 · Cessna 195B N841DP · accident · no injuries
1988-10-01FTW89DPA01 · Shannon J-Bird N151JS · accident · minor injuries
1987-05-23FTW87DPA01 · North American Snj-5 N777HL · accident · serious injuries
1986-03-28FTW86FA049 · Spencer Pitts S-1 N66D · accident · serious injuries
1985-05-10FTW85LA218 · Cessna 421 N888K · accident · no injuries
1985-03-15FTW85LA150 · Cessna 305E N3946K · accident · no injuries
1984-09-22FTW84FU009 · Mitchell T-10R263 UNREG · accident · 2 killed
1983-04-03FTW83LA177 · De Havilland Dhc-6 N927BA · accident · 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.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/TX05.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 November 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.