Covey Trails Airport
X09 · Fulshear, Texas · Fort Bend County · map
Covey Trails Airport is a public-use airport owned by Covey Trails Civic Club INC, 3 miles east of Fulshear, Texas, 130 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,352 feet of grass.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA X09
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Covey Trails Civic Club INC
- Elevation
- 130 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1979
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,352 × 100 ft | Grass, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 17: VASI, two boxes on the left, threshold displaced 315 ft, tree on the approach
- Runway 35: threshold displaced 250 ft, tree on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 |
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Aircraft registered in Fulshear from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Fulshear, Texas: 13 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. 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 · 10 since 1982, 1 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
- Provided airport traffic pattern must maintain base legs and turns to final approach within 0.75 NM of the runway ends, and the special siap will remain until the reimbursable agreement is cancelled or ftw fpo is requested to publish it.
- Rtg beacon DUSK-2200.
- DUSK-2200. Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 aft 2200 - the common traffic frequency.
- Chris mallory, president, Covey Trails civic club.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights; 2800 feet of runway lighted at night between displaced thlds.
- Approach slope 7:1 to displaced threshold ovr 33 feet tree 115 feet from displaced threshold 96 feet left.
- Approach slope 7:1 to displaced threshold.
- Soft areas, unretracted sprinkler heads on runway.
- Base legs and turns to final approach must be within.75 NM of the runway ends.
- Student tng prohibited.
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.