Dallas Love Field
DAL · KDAL · Dallas, Texas · Dallas County · map
Dallas Love Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Dallas, 5 miles northwest of Dallas, Texas, 487 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13R/31L, is 8,800 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA DAL · ICAO KDAL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Dallas
- Elevation
- 487 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1937
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13R/31L | 8,800 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 13L/31R | 7,752 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 13R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 489 ft, 8,310 ft available for landing
- Runway 31L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), 8,000 ft available for landing, building 692 ft high 21,555 ft from the end
- Runway 13L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 399 ft, 7,352 ft available for landing
- Runway 31R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, 6,952 ft available for landing, pole 30 ft high 1,227 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Digital ATIS | 120.15 | Love |
| Clearance delivery | 127.9 | Love |
| Ground | 121.75 | Love |
| Tower | 123.7 | Love |
| Tower (secondary) | 118.7 | Love |
| Approach · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Class B airspace North; Runway 31L/R props | 124.3 | Love |
| Approach · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Class B airspace South; Runway 13L/R props | 125.2 | Love |
| Bachman and dp · Dallas Area Dp · Departure East; Turbojets | 118.55 | Love |
| Curlo Rnav Dp · Departure · Joe Pool Dp South; Turbojets | 125.125 | Love |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Love |
| Dal and vot | 113.3 | |
| Herbz and star | 118.1 | Love |
| Dallas and rco | 122.3 | Dallas |
| Mnndo and star | 125.025 | Love |
| Fingr and star | 125.275 | Love |
| Departure procedure (RAMBL) | 126.475 | Love |
| Dryye and star | 135.975 | Love |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 214-353-1551.
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Aircraft registered in Dallas from the FAA register
1,853 aircraft are registered to owners in Dallas, Texas: 826 airliners and large jets, 619 piston singles, 212 business jets, 84 turboprops, 63 piston twins. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Texas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 22 since 1982, 1 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
- Approach slope 50:1 from displaced threshold.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport. Bird activity trinity river bottom 3 miles southwest side
- Pvt pilot cert or btr required to takeoff or land.
- No student solo flights permitted.
- Taxiway K closed through traffic.
- Paew on airport.
- Landing fee aprt
- K runup pad closed 12:00 am to 6:00 am.
- Pilots conducting efvs operations; be aware led als in use runway 31L and runway 31R.
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.