Lubbock Preston Smith International
LBB · KLBB · Lubbock, Texas · Lubbock County · map
Lubbock Preston Smith International is a public-use airport owned by the City of Lubbock, 4 miles north of Lubbock, Texas, 3,282 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 17R/35L, is 11,500 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1 with additive).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LBB · ICAO KLBB
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Lubbock
- Elevation
- 3,282 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with a TRACON · around the clock
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A-1 with additive
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Dallas-Ft Worth sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 6E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1937
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17R/35L | 11,500 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 8,003 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 17L/35R | 2,891 × 74 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 17R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 35L: VASI, four boxes on the left
- Runway 08: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 26: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 35R: right-hand traffic pattern, road 18 ft high 573 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 125.3 | Lubbock |
| Clearance delivery | 118.4 | |
| Clearance delivery | 125.8 | Lubbock |
| Ground | 121.9 | Lubbock |
| Tower | 120.5 | Lubbock |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace | 119.2 | Lubbock |
| Approach (secondary) Departure (secondary) · Class C (secondary) | 119.9 | Lubbock |
| Departure (secondary) | 124.45 | Lubbock |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Lubbock |
| Lubbock and rco | 122.2 | Lubbock |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 806-766-6432.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Lubbock from the FAA register
272 aircraft are registered to owners in Lubbock, Texas: 194 piston singles, 21 turboprops, 17 piston twins, 14 business jets, 13 drones. 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 · 36 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
- Runway 17L/35R rstrd to gen avn aircraft 12500 pounds or less.
- Runway 17L/35R not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Taxiways B and D; txls east and E1 rstrd to aircraft weighing less than 50000 pounds.
- Runway 17L/35R; taxiways B and D; txls east and E1 not available for air carrier aircraft with over 9 psgr seats.
- Nmrs birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- East ramp delineated txl and apron area rstrd to 120000 pounds dual tand aircraft; 89000 pounds dual sngl wheel aircraft; 60000 pounds sngl wheel aircraft. All otr east ramp pavements rstrd to aircraft less than 12500 pounds sngl wheel aircraft.
- Paew adjacent runways 08/26 and 17R/35L.
- Taxiway L between taxiway F and taxiway J closed to more than 120001 LB.
- Taxiways B and D, txls east and E1 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and non schedule passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
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.