Choosing an airfield here
What drives the choice in this area: where the traffic goes, where you can clear, and what you can land.
Overview
65 airfields serve East and Central Texas. Easterwood Field (KCLL) handles the most business aviation traffic, with 13% of the area's business jet movements , followed by Tyler Pounds Regional and East Texas Regional . The area stretches across East and Central Texas with fields reaching into Louisiana and Arkansas, from College Station and Waco in the south to Texarkana and Paris near the state lines. Field spacing varies widely, from airports close to the center to others nearly 150 NM out, so ground transport and fuel planning differ sharply depending on which end of the area a trip touches. Shreveport Regional carries the only customs clearance point in the region. Traffic builds through the fall, with October well above the January low, a pattern worth weighing against ramp space at busier fields.
Ten of the 65 airfields serving East and Central Texas handle 69% of the area's business jet movements. Distance is measured from the area center, and runway length is the longest paved surface on the field.
Headline figures cover public airports only. Military and private fields stay in the list below but are excluded from the counts.
Source: FAA Form 5010 and CBP list of ports of entry.
All 65 airfields serving East and Central Texas, grouped by distance from the area center. Each tier carries its own scale in nautical miles, and every mark is one airfield.
Distance is measured from the area center, not from another airfield.
Source: Skystar calculation from official coordinates.
Business jet traffic across East and Central Texas peaks in October and is lowest in January. Five months run above the yearly average.
Source: FAA TFMSC, 78,353 business jet movements across the area, 2025.
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The East and Central Texas area spans from a minimum of 13 NM to a maximum of 148 NM from the center point, covering 65 airfields across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. That range puts fields like Palestine Municipal near the core and Texarkana Regional-Webb Field (KTXK) toward the outer edge. With 54 public-use airports in the mix, dispatchers working this area should expect meaningful routing differences depending on which field serves a given leg, since a field near the center and one near the edge are not interchangeable for ground transport planning.
Shreveport Regional (KSHV) is the sole airport with CBP inspection services available in the East and Central Texas area. It sits 80 NM from Tyler Pounds Regional (KTYR), 45 NM from East Texas Regional (KGGG), and 61 NM from Texarkana Regional-Webb Field (KTXK). For any international arrival or departure clearing through this area, KSHV is the only option among the listed fields, which makes its position relative to these other towered airports a key input when sequencing a customs stop against the rest of a multi-leg itinerary.
East Texas Regional (KGGG) in Longview holds the longest runway in the East and Central Texas area at 10,000 feet, among the 54 public-use airports counted for this figure. Robert Gray Army Airfield (KGRK) is close behind at 9,997 feet, and North Texas Regional/Perrin Field (KGYI) offers 9,000 feet. Only 14 airports across the area report a runway of 6,000 feet or more, so operators flying larger or heavier jets have a narrower set of fields to choose from compared to the full count of 65 airfields in the area.
Business jet movements in the East and Central Texas area reach their low point in January at 5,587 operations and peak in October at 7,686, based on 2025 traffic data. That is a swing of over 2,000 monthly movements between the slowest and busiest month. Five months of the year run above the average of 6,529 movements, with October, November, and September among the strongest. Dispatchers scheduling repositioning or planning ramp and handling capacity around this area should weight the fourth quarter differently than the January low when estimating field congestion.
Elevations across the East and Central Texas area run from near sea level up to 1,321 feet at Stephenville Clark Regional, the highest point among public-use fields here. Most of the fields in the top-traffic group sit well below that: Easterwood Field (KCLL) at 321 feet, Tyler Pounds Regional (KTYR) at 544 feet, and East Texas Regional (KGGG) at 366 feet. This is a low-relief area overall compared to mountain regions, so density altitude and terrain-driven performance penalties are a smaller factor here than the seasonal traffic swings or runway length differences between fields.