Interesting NO NAME airport way out in west Texas (Black Ops?)

[cliffy]

Found an interesting airport out in west Texas below Ft Stockton with no aviation plot anywhere on any map/chart I can find.

No name, no nothing, yet it is pushing (by my guess) 7,000+ feet with good asphalt and full IFR runway markings but no IFR approaches I can find

It is literally in the middle of nowhere with no paved roads nearby. No houses, no hangars nothing

There is what looks to be a paved ramp north of the runway and a dirt staging area to the southwest.

Its directly below Ft Stockton with a lat/long of  N 30 18 '55.7  w 102 49' 29.3   North of 90  east of 385

Rwy 9-27

A couple other ranch strips out there but nothing this size or direction

Men in Black?    :-)

[PeteMc]

Interesting set of coordinates, what device did you pull them out of?  

30.315472N/102.824806W takes me to Red Mill Ranch (9MTC) in ForeFlight.  Rwy 09-27 is 7,222ft/150ft.  A Google search tells me that 9MTC is Nine Mile Training Center, which is a large private military training facility in Texas, not a public airport.

[Greg Ellis]

That runway that you see is in the middle of Red Mill Ranch.  A 25,000 acre cattle ranch.  I have a feeling it probably belongs to them since it is smack dab in the middle of their property.  But there is nothing there.  Other than a pad site that looks like it was meant for a hangar.  Maybe they are building one or stopped in the middle of it.  On google maps there also appears to be a very rough runway near it.  No markings but oriented NW to SE.  And there appears to be an old farm road running across the middle of the big runway that takes you back up to the main road running through the ranch.

The ranch was for sale at one time and in the listing they mention nothing about a runway on the property.  They talk about a lot of other improvements but nothing about a runway.

[Jackk]

Here ya go 

 

 Private, owned by Longfellow Ranch Partners LP

 

It is also inside of a rather large UAS NOTAM that goes up to 17,999’

 

 

 

 
 

 The owner address for that parcel goes to a petroleum company 

 

 

Sounds like a episode of Landman lol

Edited December 3, 2025 by Jackk

[N201MKTurbo]

We have one of those around here. The old Lufthansa airport. It belongs to Dillon now and they use it for military training.

1AZ0

It has an ILS. It is not listed in procedures, but if you read the airport info, it mentions it.

[Yetti]

There is a group operating a plane(s) out of Caldwell Texas that fits the bill of "different"    I think they do jumps and also some plane testing/pilot training or something.    

[cliffy]

That's the airport.

I have a relative that hunts that property and has seen camo'd up guys around the airport but never interacted with them.

I did notice cars around a building at the small old "airport" just to the north.

That's why my comment on black ops. 

Got the numbers off Google with no other reference as to who it was.  My Google-foo must not have a high enough clearance. 

A small aside- I used to do training in 727s at Miami T&T airport out in the swamp west of MIA. Nothing there either but a runway

when I was there, Now its turned into  Alligator Alcatraz

[Captnmack]

Black ops training area. I know an unnamed airline that recently flew personal in there…so I was told…

[cliffy]

1 hour ago, Captnmack said:

Black ops training area. I know an unnamed airline that recently flew personal in there…so I was told…

The red and white airline?  :-)

BTW    @Captnmack     Weatherford TX ?    There used to be a fly in community there called IIRC Tailspin Airpark

Is it still there?  I knew the developer who started it many years ago.  Chuck Becum (sp?)

[Captnmack]

Not sure about airpark? KWEA is Parker County Airport, not really a County owned though. Houses on the west side that have access to runway. 

[Greg Ellis]

On 12/4/2025 at 6:06 PM, cliffy said:

The red and white airline?  :-)

BTW    @Captnmack     Weatherford TX ?    There used to be a fly in community there called IIRC Tailspin Airpark

Is it still there?  I knew the developer who started it many years ago.  Chuck Becum (sp?)

It is still there at least on the VFR sectional.  It is southeast of Mineral Wells (KMWL).  It is also listed on airnav.

AirNav: 58TX - Tailspin Estates Airport

[Old Chub]

I have a friend that has lived out there for years.  He is a recently retired airline captain.   I have landed out there with my C120 and my C model.   I thought the address was considered Brock TX.