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Las Vegas Municipal Airport is a small city-owned general aviation field five miles northeast of Las Vegas, New Mexico, sitting at nearly 6,860 feet on the high plains east of the Sangre de Cristo range. It offers a long paved runway well suited to piston and light turbine traffic, and carries a long if quiet history as an early stop on transcontinental airmail and airline routes.
Las Vegas Municipal Airport is a publicly owned general aviation aerodrome serving the city of Las Vegas in San Miguel County, New Mexico. It has no scheduled passenger service today, but it remains an active general aviation field with a long main runway, making it a useful and historically interesting stop for pilots flying through northern New Mexico.
The airport lies about five miles northeast of the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, in San Miguel County, on a 1,300-acre site. It sits beneath the airspace worked by Albuquerque Center, whose frequency is available to pilots transiting or arriving in the area.
The airfield has two paved runways. The primary runway, 14/32, is 8,157 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit, capable of handling a wide range of general aviation and light turbine aircraft. The secondary runway, 02/20, is 4,969 feet long and hard-surfaced. There is no ILS at the field.
An ASOS automated weather observation is broadcast on 118.525 MHz. Traffic and airport advisories are handled on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. Albuquerque Center can be reached on 132.8 MHz, and Albuquerque Radio (flight service) is available on 122.6 MHz.
There is no control tower service indicated for the field, and pilots should use the published CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz to make position calls and coordinate with other traffic in the vicinity.
Las Vegas Municipal Airport was a stop on one of the earliest scheduled air routes in the United States, the Denver to El Paso route begun in 1929 by Mid-Continental Air Express, which called at Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Western Air Express took over the route by 1931, and it passed to Varney Speed Lines flying Lockheed Vegas aircraft in 1934. Continental Airlines served the field from 1937, initially with Lockheed Model 10 Electras and later Lockheed Lodestars, and after a break in service returned with Douglas DC-3s, adding stops at Trinidad, Colorado, and at Raton, Socorro, Truth or Consequences and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Continental withdrew from Las Vegas in 1952 citing airport conditions. Pioneer Air Lines operated DC-3s through the airport from 1948 to 1952 on a route linking Albuquerque and Dallas via Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Tucumcari, Clovis, Lubbock, Abilene, Mineral Wells and Fort Worth. Two further commuter carriers made brief appearances: Trans Central Airlines in 1969 and 1970, flying to Albuquerque and Denver on a route similar to Continental's earlier service, and Territorial Airlines in 1990, linking Las Vegas with Albuquerque and Raton. The airport also appeared as a filming location in the 2011 film Haywire.
The airport is owned and operated by the City of Las Vegas and continues to support general aviation activity, along with air cargo flights operated by South Aero on behalf of UPS to Albuquerque. The city describes the airport as providing aviation services, facilities and infrastructure supporting local travel and commerce.
