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Otero Mill Airport

72NM · La Luz, New Mexico · Otero County · map

Otero Mill Airport is a private airport owned by The Tom and Jean Braziel Rev. Trust, 2 miles southwest of La Luz, New Mexico, 4,603 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 4,752 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 72NM
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner
The Tom and Jean Braziel Rev. Trust
Elevation
4,603 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
June 1972

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

0422N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
04/224,752 × 80 ftDirt

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
none reported
Repairs
none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Alamogordo-White Sands Regional (7 nm south), Sierra Blanca Regional (37 nm northeast).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Alamogordo-White Sands Regional (7 nm south), Sierra Blanca Regional (37 nm northeast), Carrizozo Municipal (42 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 New Mexico · avgas.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in La Luz from the FAA register

9 aircraft are registered to owners in La Luz, New Mexico: 5 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 glider, 1 balloon. 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 New Mexico.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

  • White Sands Soaring Association INC 5 aircraft · Alamogordo, 8 miles away White Sands Soaring Association is a flying club formed in 1959 that promotes soaring and operates glider flights from Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport in New Mexico.
  • Holloman Afb Aero Club 3 aircraft · Holloman Afb, 11 miles away

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.

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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/72NM.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.