Medina River Ranch Airport
XS43 · Pipe Creek, Texas · Bandera County · map
Medina River Ranch Airport is a private airport, 5 miles south of Pipe Creek, Texas, 1,216 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 2,000 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA XS43
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,216 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- San Antonio sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1971
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 2,000 × 100 ft | Grass | |
| 10/28 | 1,600 × 100 ft | Grass | |
| 14/32 | 1,600 × 100 ft | Grass |
Aircraft registered in Pipe Creek from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Pipe Creek, Texas: 11 piston singles, 4 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 4 gliders, 1 piston twin. 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
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.