Lake Water Wheel Airport
XS99 · Shepherd, Texas · San Jacinto County · map
Lake Water Wheel Airport is a private airport, 5 miles east of Shepherd, Texas, 80 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 2,600 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 XS99
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 80 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 2,600 × 100 ft | Grass |
- Runway 11: trees 75 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 29: trees 75 ft high 400 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Cleveland Municipal (8 nm southwest), Liberty Municipal (26 nm southeast), Conroe/North Houston Regional (27 nm west), Hawthorne Field (35 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Cleveland Municipal (8 nm southwest), Livingston Municipal (14 nm northwest), Liberty Municipal (26 nm southeast), Conroe/North Houston Regional (27 nm west).
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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Shepherd from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Shepherd, Texas: 7 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Texas.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Shepherd 8 aircraft · 7 piston singles, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Texas 6,235 since 1982 · 1,058 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Texas 393 landing places
- Texas 29,939 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/XS99.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 October 28, 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.