Mustang Beach Airport frequencies

Mustang Beach Airport (RAS · KRAS) in Port Aransas, TX has no control tower, so nobody is sequencing traffic here — you announce your own position on 122.9. Every frequency below is in the order you tune it. · Open on the map

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Before taxi

ASOS/AWOS 118.425
An automated weather station reading the field conditions aloud — wind, visibility, ceiling, temperature and altimeter. It replaces ATIS at a field with no controller to record one. Get the altimeter setting before you descend below the transition altitude.

Taxi & takeoff

CTAF 122.9
The common frequency pilots use to announce themselves to each other at a field with no operating control tower. Nobody is controlling traffic — you are self announcing. Report your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern, and listen well before you transmit.

Departure & arrival Corpus

App/Dep 125.4
One radar controller working both arrivals and departures — normal at a smaller TRACON. The same frequency takes your climb out and your inbound call.

What to say on 122.9

Nobody is sequencing traffic at KRAS, so every call is you telling other aircraft where you are. Open and close with the field name so a pilot tuned to a shared frequency knows which airport you mean — 122.9 is not unique to Mustang Beach Airport.

  • Inbound, 10 miles out Mustang Beach traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, one zero miles south, inbound landing runway 12, Mustang Beach.
  • Entering the pattern Mustang Beach traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, entering left downwind runway 12, Mustang Beach.
  • Before taking the runway Mustang Beach traffic, Skyhawk one two three four five, departing runway 12, Mustang Beach.

Pattern direction is not always left here — check the KRAS traffic pattern before you announce a leg. The Chart Supplement is authoritative if KRAS publishes a call name that differs from the airport's. Full guidance →

By procedure & sector (1 more)
307.9APCH/P DEP/P
Every KRAS frequency, as one table
ASOS/AWOS118.425
CTAF122.9
App/Dep125.4

Frequently asked

What is the CTAF at KRAS?

Mustang Beach Airport is non towered. The common traffic advisory frequency is 122.9 — announce your position and intentions on entry and on each leg of the pattern.

What is the ASOS/AWOS frequency at KRAS?

ASOS/AWOS at Mustang Beach Airport is 118.425. It is an automated broadcast, so there is no letter to report — just take the altimeter setting and wind.

What is the approach frequency for KRAS?

App/Dep for Mustang Beach Airport is 125.4, working as "Corpus". Call inbound for flight following or to begin an instrument approach.