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📍 Santa Elena⬆ 312 ft1 runways

38XS ·

San Rafael Ranch Airport

26.81520°N

-98.47930°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 46.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

San Rafael Ranch Airport (38XS) is a small general aviation airport located in Santa Elena, TX, 45 mi north of McAllen. It features 1 runway measuring 6,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 0 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Visib

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Ceil

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Runways

1 installed

6,000 FT MAX

14/32

6,000 ft × 75

ASPH● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

100% of ops

86 land · 0 TO

Runway 14 carries 100% of operations (86 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

14 86 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 14 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 86 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

1.3

flights/day · 40 total

Busy hour (local)

6pm

also 5pm · 7pm

Day vs night

85%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 6pm–7pm local, averaging 1.3 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.4× weekday (0.6 vs 1.7 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

31 · 78%

2 · 5%

1 · 2%

Activity is led by (78% of 40 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.800	—
SARITA R	128.150	—
OTHER	128.150	—
SARITA R	350.300	—
OTHER	350.300	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Mag var:: 7° E

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