Pahute Mesa Airstrip Airport
L23 · Mercury, Nevada · Nye County · map
Pahute Mesa Airstrip Airport is a private airport owned by Nevada Dept of Energy, 31 miles northwest of Mercury, Nevada, 5,068 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 5,800 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L23
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- Nevada Dept of Energy
- Elevation
- 5,068 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 5,800 × 100 ft | Asphalt |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Beatty Airport (27 nm southwest).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Nevada · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Formal evaluation not required, date estabd not known.
- VFR day only.
- Airstrip within R-4808.
- Official business only. Prior permission required required from dept of energy for all flights.
- Afld for rotary wing/powerlift aircraft only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mercury from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mercury, NV as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Nevada 1,292 since 1982 · 221 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 3 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Nevada 51 landing places
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/L23.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.