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
- Codes
- FAA XS99
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 80 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- 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
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, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
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
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.