Marfa Municipal Airport is three miles north of

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Presidio County, Texas Presidio County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,131. Its county seat is Marfa. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1875. Presidio County (K-5 in Texas topological ind ...

. There is currently no scheduled airline service to the airport; until 1960 Trans-Texas DC-3s stopped at the former Marfa AAF, now abandoned, at 30.256N 103.882W east of Marfa.

Facilities

Marfa Municipal Airport covers at an

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of 4,849 feet (1,478 m). It has two asphalt runways: 13/31 is 6,214 by 75 feet (1,894 x 23 m) and 4/22 is 5,307 by 75 feet (1,618 x 23 m). A third runway, 9/27, is 2,825 by 60 feet (861 x 18 m) dirt. In the year ending April 23, 2007 the airport had 15,000 aircraft operations, average 41 per day, all

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. 18 aircraft were then based at the airport: 61% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 33% glider.

Glider activity

In April 2008 the Marfa Airport was recognized as the 15th

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by the National Soaring Museum.
Marfa Gliders
offers sailplane flight training and glider rides all year and hosts a soaring camp in spring.

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