Leesville Airport
L39 · Leesville, Louisiana · Vernon County · map
Leesville Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Leesville, 4 miles west of Leesville, Louisiana, 282 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,807 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L39
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Leesville
- Elevation
- 282 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,807 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 58 ft high 872 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 39 ft high 1,596 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.7 |
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Aircraft registered in Leesville from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Leesville, Louisiana: 16 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 26 since 1982, 7 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
- Dusk to dawn. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36, runway end identifier lights runways 18 and 36 preset low intst dusk to dawn; to incr intst activate - the common traffic frequency 122.8.
- Fuel available 24 hours with credit card.
- Runway 18/36 15 feet terrain drop east side of runway.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Use runway end turnabouts to avoid locked wheel and sharp turns on runway surface.
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.