Blanca Airport
05V · Blanca, Colorado · Costilla County · map
Blanca Airport is a public-use airport owned by the Town of Blanca, 3 miles southwest of Blanca, Colorado, 7,720 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 03/21, is 6,160 feet of dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 05V
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Town of Blanca
- Elevation
- 7,720 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,160 × 52 ft | Dirt, good |
- Runway 03: road on the approach
- Runway 21: road on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Blanca from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Blanca, Colorado: 3 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Existed prior to 1959.
- Unlimited vehicle access to field; wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- 1 to 2 feet vegetation both sides of runway full length.
- Runway 21 has +15 feet sprinkler within 200 feet of thld; intermittently.
- Runway 03 +35 feet pole 475 feet from runway end 50 feet R of centerline; +5 feet fence 10 feet from thld 0B; +15 feet building 560 feet from thld 225 feet R of centerline; +15 feet building 500 feet from thld 150 feet L of centerline.
- Runway 03/21 soft when wet.
- Runway 21 +20 feet hangar 185 feet L of thld and +8 feet road 213 feet from thld 0B.
- Runway 03/21 has 6 to 12 in dirt windrows along both sides full length.
- Be alert; intensive usaf student training in vicinity of Colorado springs and pueblo Colorado.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.