Leach Airport
1V8 · Center, Colorado · Saguache County · map
Leach Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Saguache, 4 miles northeast of Center, Colorado, 7,598 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 7,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1V8
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Saguache
- Elevation
- 7,598 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1962
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 7,000 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 204 ft, trees 55 ft high 507 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,314 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency. |
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Aircraft registered in Center from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Center, Colorado: 13 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 · 3 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Obstruction removal or threshold dsplcmt.
- Runway 12/30 has +12 feet sprinklers along both sides of runway 54 feet from centerline full length of runway.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Runway 12 has -5 feet ditch 120 feet from pavement end, +2 feet berm 126 feet from pavement end.
- Runway 30 has +60 feet power line and +4 feet snow fence at pavement end.
- Runway 12 has 135 feet nighttime displaced thld.
- Runway markings worn and faded.
- Runway markings worn and faded.
- Runway 12 approach slope 20:1 to displaced thld.
- Runway 30 approach slope 21:1 to displaced thld.
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.