Prairie Creek Airport
57LS · Leesville, Louisiana · Vernon County · map
Prairie Creek Airport is a private airport, 4 miles northwest of Leesville, Louisiana, 245 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 1,800 feet of grass.
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 57LS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 245 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- In the FAA's files since
- February 2010
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 1,800 × 50 ft | Grass |
- Runway 18: trees 80 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 80 ft high 100 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Leesville Airport (4 nm southwest), Beauregard Regional (23 nm south), Natchitoches Regional (33 nm north), Alexandria International (38 nm east).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Leesville Airport (4 nm southwest), Beauregard Regional (23 nm south), Hart Airport (23 nm northwest), Natchitoches Regional (33 nm north).
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 Louisiana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only; all traffic patterns remain to the east.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Leesville from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Leesville, Louisiana: 16 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Louisiana.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Repair stations in Leesville:
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Leesville 19 aircraft · 16 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift and powered parachutes
- Flatt Solutions, LLC · repair station
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 188 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/57LS.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 29, 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.