Lea County/Zip Franklin Memorial
E06 · Lovington, New Mexico · Lea County · map
Lea County/Zip Franklin Memorial is a public-use airport owned by Lea County, 3 miles west of Lovington, New Mexico, 3,979 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 6,001 feet of asphalt. It has about 12 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,600 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA E06
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lea County
- Elevation
- 3,979 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 7E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1957
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 6,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 12/30 | 4,409 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 21: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Hobbs and center (remote transmitter) Low | 133.1 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,600, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Lovington from the FAA register
12 aircraft are registered to owners in Lovington, New Mexico: 11 piston singles, 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, never named. All aircraft registered in New Mexico.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 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
- Oil drilling act on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Dusk to dawn: medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 and 12/30 preset low intst; incr intst - the common traffic frequency. Activate PAPI runway 03, 12, 21 and 30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 and 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- +3 feet pipes 700 feet from threshold 60 feet R of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 9 degreess right and left of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 8 degrees right of centerline.
- Unusable beyond 8 degrees right of centerline.
- Gate code - 1228#
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.