Fort Sumner Municipal
FSU · KFSU · Fort Sumner, New Mexico · De Baca County · map
Fort Sumner Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the Village of Fort Sumner, 2 miles northeast of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 4,165 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 03/21, is 5,800 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA FSU · ICAO KFSU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Village of Fort Sumner
- Elevation
- 4,165 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1941
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/21 | 5,800 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 5,250 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 03: brush 3 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 21: brush 6 ft high 226 ft from the end
- Runway 26: brush 8 ft high 235 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Fort Sumner from the FAA register
6 aircraft are registered to owners in Fort Sumner, New Mexico: 5 piston singles, 1 drone. 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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Dusk to dawn: activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 03/21 preset low intst till 2200; aft 2200 activate - the common traffic frequency.
- Jamie wall or louie gallegos.
- 10 feet brush 75-200 feet from threshold 65-110 feet R of centerline; 6 feet brush 30-300 feet from threshold 50-100 feet L of centerline.
- +4 feet brush 0-150 feet from threshold 90 feet R of centerline.
- +4 feet brush 100-200 feet from threshold 100 feet L of centerline.
- 5 feet brush up to 200 feet from threshold 100 feet L and 90 feet R of centerline.
- Ctlg obtns exceeds 45 degrees slope.
- Gate aces 2019.
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.