Carrabelle-Thompson Airport
X13 · Carrabelle, Florida · Franklin County · map
Carrabelle-Thompson Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Carrabelle, 3 miles west of Carrabelle, Florida, 20 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 4,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA X13
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Carrabelle
- Elevation
- 20 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Jacksonville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 1W
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 4,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 05: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 69 ft high 2,145 ft from the end
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left, tree 60 ft high 1,530 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Carrabelle from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Carrabelle, Florida: 5 piston singles. 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 Florida.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 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
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Lights on several taxiways out of service indefinitely.
- Activate PAPI runways 05 and 23; medium-intensity runway lights runway 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Airport phys ads: 317 airport road, Carrabelle, FL 32322.
- Self serve available 24 hours.
- 150 feet wide; cntr 75 feet overlayed; 37 feet paved shoulders.
- Longl and transverse cracking thrut runway 05/23.
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.