Fallon Municipal
FLX · KFLX · Fallon, Nevada · Churchill County · map
Fallon Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Fallon, 2 miles northeast of Fallon, Nevada, 3,966 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 5,705 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 79 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 9,240 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FLX · ICAO KFLX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Fallon
- Elevation
- 3,966 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- 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
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1952
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 5,705 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 3,581 × 60 ft | Dirt, excellent |
- Runway 03: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 102 ft, road 14 ft high 475 ft from the end
- Runway 21: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 88 ft high 1,900 ft from the end
- Runway 13: trees 29 ft high 490 ft from the end
- Runway 31: road 10 ft high 250 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.85 | |
| Flx and aWOS-AV | 118.25 | |
| Fallon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.8 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 775-423-2201.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 9,240, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Fallon from the FAA register
95 aircraft are registered to owners in Fallon, Nevada: 85 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 2 drones, 1 turboprop. 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 Nevada.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 3 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
- Ovhd jet and ultralight act in the vicinity of airport.
- Brian byrd
- Trees on carson river.
- Trees on carson river.
- Line of sight between runway 03 and 13 end blocked; tmt all arrival and departure.
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.