Playas Air Strip
NM86 · Playas, New Mexico · Hidalgo County · map
Playas Air Strip is a private airport, 4 miles southeast of Playas, New Mexico, 4,519 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 4,865 feet of asphalt.
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 NM86
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 4,519 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- El Paso sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1978
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 4,865 × 50 ft | Asphalt, poor | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: fence 5 ft high 257 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Lordsburg Municipal (25 nm north), Deming Municipal (46 nm northeast), Grant County (46 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lordsburg Municipal (25 nm north), Deming Municipal (46 nm northeast), Grant County (46 nm northeast).
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 New Mexico · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Runway 06/24 medium-intensity runway lights - 5 clicks 123.0.
- Svr alligator cracking.
- Military act and drone (UAS) operations in the vicinity of airport.
- Rapid rising trrn east and frequency wind gusts.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Playas from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Playas, NM 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 New Mexico 1,422 since 1982 · 183 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in New Mexico 65 landing places
- New Mexico 3,107 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NM86.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 29, 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.