Rusk County Airport (Texas)


Rusk County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Rusk County, Texas, United States. It is located three nautical miles west of the central business district of Henderson, Texas. The current airport manager is Ron Franks, since 2013.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this facility is assigned RFI by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Facilities and aircraft

Rusk County Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 442 feet above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 17/35 is 4,004 by 75 feet and 12/30 is 3,002 by 75 feet.
For the 12-month period ending September 16, 2008, the airport had 10,000 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 96% general aviation and 4% military. At that time there were 20 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 5% glider and 10% ultralight.