Monte Prieto Ranch Airport
57NM · Claunch, New Mexico · Socorro County · map
Monte Prieto Ranch Airport is a private airport owned by Southwest Grazing INC, 8 miles southwest of Claunch, New Mexico, 6,164 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 2,000 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 57NM
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Southwest Grazing INC
- Elevation
- 6,164 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
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1960
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 2,000 × 50 ft | Dirt |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Sierra Blanca Regional (48 nm southeast), Belen Regional (49 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Carrizozo Municipal (29 nm southeast), Socorro Municipal (39 nm west), Sierra Blanca Regional (48 nm southeast), Belen Regional (49 nm northwest).
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
- Runway not regularly maintd.
- Extn 2152
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Claunch from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Claunch, NM as the owner's town.
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
- Accidents and incidents in New Mexico 1,422 since 1982 · 183 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 2 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Mexico 65 landing places
- New Mexico 3,107 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/57NM.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.