Los Alamos Airport
LAM · KLAM · Los Alamos, New Mexico · Los Alamos County · map
Los Alamos Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Los Alamos, 1 mile east of Los Alamos, New Mexico, 7,171 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 6,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive) and about 46 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 13,640 takeoffs and landings a year.
Weather right now KLAM · observed 4:35 pm MDT (22:35 UTC), 18 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the south (180°) at 6 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: scattered clouds at 26,000 feet
- Temperature 71°F (22°C), dew point 46°F (8°C)
- Altimeter 30.22 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 KLAM 062235Z AUTO 18006KT 10SM SCT260 22/08 A3022 RMK AO2 T02160075 $
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 LAM · ICAO KLAM
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Los Alamos
- Elevation
- 7,171 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 6,000 × 120 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: fence 8 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | |
| Lam and aWOS-3 | 124.175 | |
| Tesuque Peak Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.8 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 505-662-8423.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 13,640, 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 Los Alamos from the FAA register
46 aircraft are registered to owners in Los Alamos, New Mexico: 40 piston singles, 2 gliders, 2 drones, 1 turboprop, 1 balloon. 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 New Mexico.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 12 since 1982, 1 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
- Provided approach slopes to runway ends at least 20:1 and exceptions to the one way operations are provided in the case of adverse tail winds which would exceed a given ACFT'S tail wind limitations.
- Activate runway end identifier lightss runway 27; medium-intensity runway lights runway 09/27 - the common traffic frequency.
- Tie downs available on ramp near fuel farm.
- 100LL and JET-A fuel service available 24 hours with maj credit card.
- Lnd west; takeoff east.
- +8 feet blast barrier 75 feet from threshold 50 feet L and R of centerline; +25 feet light pole 198 feet from threshold 135 feet L of centerline; +4-15 feet brush and trees 80-200 feet from threshold 125 feet L and R of centerline.
- VFR traffic rmn 5 MI east of airport until turning final; R turn on go around or missed approach.
- 1.5 up to west.
- Ctlg obstruction exceeds a 45 degrees slope.
- Radio comm recommended bfr traffic pattern entry.
- Rstrd area adjacent to south side of airport.
- Wildlife on and in the vicinity of airport.
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.