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XS59 ·

Mellon Ranch Airport

28.28080°N

-97.21140°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Mellon Ranch Airport (XS59) is a small general aviation airport located in Refugio, TX, 35 mi north of Corpus Christi. It features 1 runway measuring 4,650 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KCRP, 39 mi away (XS59 does not publish METAR)

38m ago

Temp

32°F

Wind

14 kts

140°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KCRP 270130Z AUTO 14014KT 10SM FEW040 29/24 A2996 RMK T02900240 MADISHF

Runways

1 installed

4,650 FT MAX

15/33

4,650 ft × 60

ASPH○ unlit

Runway intelligence

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

98% of ops

53 land · 0 TO

2% of ops

1 land · 16 TO

Runway 15 carries 98% of operations (53 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 33 at 2%.

Approach quality

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

15 53 landings

UA 0%

33 1 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 15 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 53 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

0.8

flights/day · 24 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 2pm · 3pm

Day vs night

75%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–4pm local, averaging 0.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.6× weekday (1.1 vs 0.7 daily).

Aircraft character

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

4 · 17%

2 · 8%

Activity is led by (17% of 24 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
UNICOM	122.725	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZHU
Elevation:: 38 ft
Mag var:: 6° E

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