Naval Air Station Kingsville
IATA: NQI – ICAO: KNQI - FAA: NQI
Summary
Airport type		Naval Air Station
Operator		United States Navy
Location		Kleberg County, near Kingsville, Texas
Built		July 4, 1942
In use		Active
Commander		CAPT Philip L Waddingham
Elevation AMSL		50 ft / 15 m
Coordinates		27°30′26″N 97°48′35″W / 27.50722°N 97.80972°W / 27.50722; -97.80972
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
13L/31R	8,000	2,438	PEM
13R/31L	8,000	2,438	PEM
17L/35R	8,000	2,438	PEM
17R/35L	8,000	2,438	PEM

Naval Air Station Kingsville or NAS Kingsville (IATA: NQI, ICAO: KNQI, FAA LID: NQI) is a military airport located 3 miles east of Kingsville, Texas.

Under the current US Navy organization known as Commander, Naval Installations (CNI), NAS Corpus Christi and NAS Kingsville are part of Navy Region Southeast headquartered at NAS Jacksonville, Florida. Both facilities were previously under the since-disestablished Navy Region South, where the rear admiral serving as Region Commander and as Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA) were the same individual.

NAS Kingsville’s operation is the natural complement of NAS Corpus Christi. NAS Kingsville operates higher performance single engine aircraft, generally over land. Distance, rather than safety or capacity concerns, limits NAS Kingsville use of overwater areas.

NAS Kingsville also organizes and hosts the annual Wings Over South Texas Air Show.

Current operations

Naval Air Station Kingsville is one of the U.S. Navy’s premier locations for jet aviation training. The naval air station’s primary mission is to train Student Naval Aviators for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps and tactical jet pilots for other select NATO and Allied countries. To accomplish its mission, NAS Kingsville is home to Training Air Wing TWO and several tenant commands, military as well as civilian, with a total complement of approximately 300 officers, 200 enlisted, 350 civilian personnel, and 625 contract maintenance personnel. The wing was the first in the Navy to operate the Boeing T-45 Goshawk aircraft, providing a single carrier-capable aircraft to replace the North American Rockwell T-2 Buckeye and the McDonnell Douglas TA-4 Skyhawk II in the Navy's strike pilot training pipeline. Originally equipped with the T-45A model of the Goshawk, the wing began accepting new production T-45C model aircraft in 2005, which replaces the earlier T-45A aircraft's analog cockpit with a digital or "glass" cockpit similar to what students will find when they transition to operational fleet combat aircraft. All T-45A aircraft at NAS Kingsville are slated to be retrofitted and upgraded to a T-45C configuration under the T-45 Required Avionics Modernization Program (T-45 RAMP), with a select number of RAMP modified aircraft slated for transfer to Training Air Wing SIX at NAS Pensacola, Florida in support of Student Naval Flight Officer training under the Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) program.

The NAS Kingsville Operations Department operates the airfield and provides services to support operations of activity, tenant, and transiting aircraft; provides firefighting functions, both structural and fire and rescue; provides air traffic control; operates air terminal; schedules administrative and proficiency flights; repairs and maintains station ground electronics equipment; stores, maintains, and issues assigned ordnance and munitions; operates firing ranges; operates aerial targets, bombing ranges, and auxiliary landing fields. NAS Kingsville also has both Military and Civilian security which man the entry control points and conduct vehicle inspections and patrols.

Tenant Units

• Training Squadron Twenty-One (VT-21) "Redhawks"
• Training Squadron Twenty-Two (VT-22) "Golden Eagles"
• Naval Branch Clinic Kingsville
• NAVAIR Orlando Training Systems Division In-Service Engineering Office (ISEO) Detachment
• Training Air Wing Two

Location & QuickFacts

Owner & Manager

Airport Operations and Facilities

Airport Services

Runway Information

Runway 13L/31R

Runway 13R/31L

Runway 17L/35R

Runway 17R/35L

Radio Navigation Aids

Remarks

• CAUTION: HVY JET INST TRNG DUR FLD OPR HR.
• BEARING STRENGTH RWY 13R/31L: ST175 SBTT593 TRT585.
• BEARING STRENGTH RWY 17R/35L: ST175 SBTT593 TRT585.
• BEARING STRENGTH RWY 17L/35R: ST175 SBTT593 TRT585.
• RWY-LGTS: RWY 13L - OLS & WAVE-OFF. RWY 13R - OLS & WAVE-OFF.
• RWY-LGTS: RWY 13R - OLS & WAVE-OFF. RWY 31L - OLS & WAVE-OFF.
• RWY-LGTS: RWY 17L - OLS & WAVE-OFF. RWY 35R - OLS & WAVE-OFF.
• RWY-LGTS: RWY 17R - OLS & WAVE-OFF. RWY 35L - OLS & WAVE-OFF.
• SERVICE - LGT: OLS GS 3.25‘.
• JASU: 1(NC-8A) 1(GTC-85) 1(NCPP-105).
• FUEL: J8.
• FLUID: SP PRESAIR LOX.
• OIL: O-148-156.
• TRAN ALERT: EXP SVCG DELAYS WKEND. SVC NOT AVBL SUN TIL 2300Z. TRAN MUST SUPERVISE SVCG. DRAG CHUTE REPACK UNAVBL.
• MISC: EXP 15 MIN DELAY DUR PEAK TRNG PERIODS.
• CAUTION: AVOID OVFT OF CHEMICAL PLANT 5 NM N.
• CAT C AFLD.
• TFC PAT: ARR TRANSIENT ACFT EXPC ENROUTE DESCENT.
• TFC PAT: USE LDG/TAXI LGT FOR FINAL PORTION OF INST APCH DUR VFR.
• RSTD: PPR FOR NON-CNATRA ACFT DSN876-6108/6283, C361-516-6108/6283.
• MISC: DUR SINGLE RWY OPR, ALL NON-TRNG WG 2 ACFT SHOULD EXP DELAYS AND WAVE-OFFS DUR PEAK TFC.
• BEARING STRENGTH RWY 13L/31R: ST 175 SBTT593 TRT585.

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General Info
Country	United States
State	TEXAS
FAA ID	NQI
Latitude	27-30-26.129N
Longitude	097-48-34.988W
Elevation	50 feet
Near City	KINGSVILLE

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