Laredo International
LRD · KLRD · Laredo, Texas · Webb County · map
Laredo International is a public-use airport owned by the City of Laredo, 3 miles northeast of Laredo, Texas, 508 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18R/36L, is 8,743 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA LRD · ICAO KLRD
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Laredo
- Elevation
- 508 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 12:00 am
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- customs available · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Brownsville sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 5E
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18R/36L | 8,743 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 8,236 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
| 14/32 | 5,927 × 150 ft | Concrete, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR)
- Runway 36L: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 120 ft, 8,623 ft available for landing
- Runway 18L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 36R: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 14: VASI, four boxes on the left
- Runway 32: VASI, four boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 12 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.1 | Laredo |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 125.775 | Laredo |
| Ground | 121.8 | Laredo |
| Laredo and rco | 122.3 | Laredo |
| Laredo and center (remote transmitter) Low | 127.8 | Laredo |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 956-712-8640.
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 Laredo from the FAA register
82 aircraft are registered to owners in Laredo, Texas: 35 piston singles, 17 turboprops, 15 business jets, 10 helicopters, 5 piston twins. 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 · 15 since 1982, 4 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
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18R - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32; high-intensity runway lights runways 18L/36R and 18R/36L preset med intst.
- Engineered materials arresting system (emas) 363 feet in length by 170 feet in width located at the der 18R.
- JP4 fuel available.
- Runway 14/32 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.
- Runway 14/32 rstrd to aircraft less than 60000 pounds dtw.
- Taxiway C closed between runway 18L/36R and runway 18R indefinitely.
- Federal inspection station is located on the west general aviation/cargo apron.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Landing fee assessed for all aircraft except federal, military and based aircraft.
- Federal inspection station fee.
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.