Lyon Airport
LS14 · Thornwell, Louisiana · Jefferson Davis County · map
Lyon Airport is a private airport, 3 miles southwest of Thornwell, Louisiana, 6 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,400 feet of grass.
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 LS14
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 6 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Houston sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 4E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1950
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,400 × 115 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 18: power line 35 ft high 250 ft from the end
- Runway 36: trees 50 ft high 450 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Also here
- crop spraying
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Jennings Airport (13 nm northeast), Chennault International (19 nm northwest), Lake Charles Regional (21 nm west), Southland Field (29 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Jennings Airport (13 nm northeast), Chennault International (19 nm northwest), Lake Charles Regional (21 nm west), Southland Field (29 nm west).
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 Louisiana · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Pre dates act.
- Runway 36 +30 feet power lines 275 feet from runway end.
- Windsock missing.
- 30' power line 80' right of cntrnl.
- 30' power line across approach.
- Gas pumping station east side of runway.
- Rough and uneven.
- Strip is used mainly for agricultural use - this farm and nearby farms
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Thornwell from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Thornwell, LA 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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Accidents and incidents in Louisiana 1,272 since 1982 · 187 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Louisiana 72 landing places
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/LS14.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.