Lakefront Airport
NEW · KNEW · New Orleans, Louisiana · Orleans County · map
Lakefront Airport is a public-use airport owned by Orleans Levee District, 4 miles northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana, 7 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 18R/36L, is 6,879 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NEW · ICAO KNEW
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Orleans Levee District
- Elevation
- 7 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- New Orleans sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18R/36L | 6,879 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 18L/36R | 3,697 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 09/27 | 3,114 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 239 ft, 5,510 ft available for landing, other 6 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 36L: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 820 ft, 5,135 ft available for landing, berm 7 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 36R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, building 54 ft high 2,035 ft from the end
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, berm 4 ft high 267 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, road 14 ft high 543 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.95 | Lakefront |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 124.9 | Lakefront |
| Clearance delivery When New tower closed | 127.4 | Lakefront |
| Ground | 121.7 | Lakefront |
| Approach and departure South | 123.85 | Lakefront |
| Approach and departure · Mnstr and star North; East | 133.15 | Lakefront |
| New Orleans Rco | 122.6 | New Orleans |
| Awdad and star · Oledd and star West | 125.5 | Lakefront |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 504-245-4366.
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Aircraft registered in New Orleans from the FAA register
157 aircraft are registered to owners in New Orleans, Louisiana: 116 piston singles, 22 piston twins, 11 business jets, 6 helicopters, 2 turboprops. 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 Louisiana.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 39 since 1982, 10 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 tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 18R; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18R/36L; taxiway B, C, D, east, F, H, east hngrln - preset low intst. Activate 5 clicks for med and 7 clicks for high - the common traffic frequency.
- Overnight parking on terminal ramp must be coordinated with the FBO (fixed-base operator)
- +7 feet wall 150 feet from runway end.
- Runway 36R PAPI unusable between 2100 and 0700 local
- Approach ratio 50:1 from displaced threshold.
- Approach ratio 32:1 at displaced threshold; +77' silo 2500'; 580' R.
- Pier.
- Few low spots near intersection of runway 09/27-HOLDING water.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Boats as high as 80 feet pass WI 400 feet of runway 09 thld.
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) cpblty equivalent to index B.
- Fuel not available within 100' of terminal building
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.