A distant agricultural airplane making a low pass over a green row crop field, hazy treeline behind

Aerial application over the Brazos bottoms since 1947.

The strip answers between flights

Corn rows running to a flat horizon with a grain elevator in the distance, seen from low altitude

Seventy-nine years in the air.

Corpora Aerial Service has put insecticides and herbicides on row crops from the air since 1947. Sam Corpora is president. The office and the strip sit on FM 50, four miles south of Hearne.

1947
The company starts flying. Its record with the Better Business Bureau dates the business to January 1947.
1956
Corpora Aerial Service, Inc. is chartered with the State of Texas on June 8, 1956.
1964
The strip south of Hearne is activated as an FAA facility in June 1964.
Today
Sam Corpora, president. The same phone number answers on FM 50.

Straight down over the seam between a green crop and worked brown rows — Fig. 01 The office view, straight down

The home strip.

Drawn from the FAA airport record for facility 1TE5, checked September 2026. Runway width exaggerated for legibility. The record does not state which end carries the turf; it is drawn southeast here. Where the record is silent, the label says unpublished.

Every number on the strip

One kind of work, done low.

Flat patchwork farmland running to the horizon under a sky full of cumulus clouds — Fig. 02 Row-crop country, big sky

Insecticides and herbicides on crops, applied from the air. That is the whole listing, and it has been the work since 1947.

Call with the field, the acres, and the timing. The rest gets sorted on the phone.

The work we fly

Get on the schedule.

Spray windows are short. If the line is busy, the airplane is probably working; leave word or send a note and the office will call back.