Beaverhead Airstrip Airport
13NM · Silver City, New Mexico · Catron County · map
Beaverhead Airstrip Airport is a private airport owned by the US Forest Service - Gila N.F., 39 miles north of Silver City, New Mexico, 7,378 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,840 feet of dirt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 13NM
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Forest Service - Gila N.F.
- Elevation
- 7,378 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,840 × 50 ft | Dirt, good |
- Runway 12: trees 35 ft high 370 ft from the end
- Runway 30: tree 15 ft high 50 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Truth OR Consequences Municipal (45 nm east), Grant County (47 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Truth OR Consequences Municipal (45 nm east), Grant County (47 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in New Mexico · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Established prior to 1959.
- Airport may be closed during heavy fire traffic in summer.
- No snow removal or condition reports; check airport conditions with forest service /SILVER CITY/ before use.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Silver City from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Silver City, New Mexico: 13 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in New Mexico.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Fuel and service companies in Silver City, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Silver City 14 aircraft · 13 piston singles, 1 turboprops
- Fuel Center Plus INC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Accidents and incidents in New Mexico 1,422 since 1982 · 183 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 5 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Mexico 65 landing places
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/13NM.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.