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
- Codes
- FAA 57LS
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 245 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- 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 |
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, 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
- Provided VFR operations and pvt use only; all traffic patterns remain to the east.
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.