Jena Airport
1R1 · Jena, Louisiana · La Salle County · map
Jena Airport is a public-use airport owned by La Salle Parish Economic, 2 miles southwest of Jena, Louisiana, 216 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 4,901 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1R1
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- La Salle Parish Economic
- Elevation
- 216 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1960
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 4,901 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,101 ft, trees 67 ft high 363 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 80 ft high 1,535 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Jena from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Jena, Louisiana: 1 piston single, 1 gyroplane. 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 Louisiana.
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
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 and runway end identifier lights runways 18 and 36 preset low intst dusk to dawn; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Development district
- RWY36 runway end identifier lights out of service
- RWY36 PAPI out of service
- Approach slp to dthr is 19:1.
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.