Mesquite Metro Airport
HQZ · KHQZ · Mesquite, Texas · Dallas County · map
Mesquite Metro Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Mesquite, 3 miles east of Mesquite, Texas, 446 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 6,000 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive).
Weather right now KHQZ · observed 2:50 pm CDT (19:50 UTC), 48 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north (360°) at 7 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 88°F (31°C), dew point 48°F (9°C)
- Altimeter 29.99 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KHQZ 061950Z 36007KT 10SM CLR 31/09 A2999
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HQZ · ICAO KHQZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Mesquite
- Elevation
- 446 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 3E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1976
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,000 × 100 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, four lights on the left, runway lead-in lights, tree 40 ft high 800 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, four lights on the left, runway lead-in lights, fence 8 ft high 230 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.3 | Mesquite |
| UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Ground | 118.85 | Mesquite |
| Approach and departure · Departure procedure (BOTCH) · Dallas Area Dp South; Runway 18 | 125.2 | Mesquite |
| Gregs and star · Herbz and star · Jfrye and star | 118.1 | Mesquite |
| Hqz and aWOS-3 | 118.175 | |
| Dallas Area Dp · Fingr and star · Nandr Rnav Dp North; Runway 36 | 124.3 | Mesquite |
| Eesat and star · Loads and star · Slant and star | 125.025 | Mesquite |
| Eesat and star · Fingr and star · Loads and star | 125.275 | Mesquite |
| Swvay and star | 135.975 | Mesquite |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 972-222-7631.
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 Mesquite from the FAA register
61 aircraft are registered to owners in Mesquite, Texas: 54 piston singles, 5 piston twins, 1 turboprop, 1 business jet. 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 · 25 since 1982, 5 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
- Birds, coyotes, and wild hogs on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36 preset low intst; to incr intst and to activate rlls runway 18 and 36; runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36; PAPI runway 18 and 36 - the common traffic frequency.
- 15 feet brush 199 feet dstc, 490 feet L.
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.