Alpine–Casparis Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located 2 mi northwest of the central business district of Alpine, a city in Brewster County, Texas, United States. It supports two small runways and is not meant for large commercial planes. Alpine-Casparis is the only airport in Brewster County.

Former airline service

The airport previously had scheduled passenger air service operated by Lone Star Airlines, a commuter air carrier, during the early 1990s flown with Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner propjets. In 1992, Lone Star was flying nonstop to Austin (AUS) with continuing direct service to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). By 1993, Lone Star was continuing to fly direct one stop service to Dallas/Fort Worth via an intermediate stop in Brownwood, Texas. In 1978, Alpine-based Big Bend Airways was operating flights to Midland/Odessa (MAF) and Lubbock (LBB). Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) also served Alpine via the Marfa Municipal Airport from the late 1940s to the late 1950s with Douglas DC-3 "Starliners". By 1964, Solar Airlines was serving the Alpine airport with Beechcraft 18 twin prop aircraft operating roundtrip flights twice a day on routing of Presidio, TX - Marfa, TX - Alpine - Fort Stockton, TX - Pecos, TX - Monahans, TX - Wink, TX - Dallas Love Field (DAL).

Accident

On 4 July 2010, a twin-engine Cessna 421 operated by O’Hara Flying Service II LP of Amarillo flying as an air ambulance was en route to Midland, Texas when it crashed in a field 1 mi east of Alpine–Casparis Municipal Airport, killing all five persons on board.

Facilities and aircraft

Alpine–Casparis Municipal Airport covers an area of 196 acre which contains two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 measuring 6003 × and 5/23 measuring 5018 ×. For the 12-month period ending 17 May 2021, the airport had 13,186 aircraft operations, an average of 36 per day: 99% general aviation and 1% military. There are 46 aircraft based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 6% multi-engine and 9% helicopter. The airport's only scheduled service as of January 2013 is a Monday through Friday cargo flight operated by Martinaire on behalf of UPS to Midland, Texas.