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85TX ·

Rutherford Ranch Airport

30.07770°N

-97.96560°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 50.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Rutherford Ranch Airport (85TX) is a small general aviation airport located in Buda, TX, 19 mi south west of Austin. It features 1 runway measuring 3,800 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KHYI, 14 mi away (85TX does not publish METAR)

38m ago

Temp

92°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

4828 m

Ceil

—

KHYI 281656Z 00000KT 3SM CLR 33/22 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP178 T03330222

Runways

1 installed

3,800 FT MAX

S/N

3,800 ft × 50

ASP○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

64% of ops

14 land · 1 TO

36% of ops

8 land · 1 TO

Runway N carries 64% of operations (14 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is S at 36%.

Approach quality

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

N 14 landings

UA 43%

S 8 landings

UA 25%

Approaches to N show a 43% unstable-approach rate (6 UA events from 14 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

0.5

flights/day · 16 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 12am · 9pm

Day vs night

50%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–9pm local, averaging 0.5 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (0.8 vs 0.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (31% of 16 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Elevation:: 983 ft
Mag var:: 7° E

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