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Desert Rock Airport

NV65 · Mercury, Nevada · Nye County · map

Desert Rock Airport is a private airport owned by the US Dept Energy/Nevada, 3 miles southwest of Mercury, Nevada, 3,314 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 7,515 feet of concrete.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA NV65
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Owner: US Dept Energy/Nevada
Elevation: 3,314 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: unattended
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
Parking: tiedown
On the chart: Las Vegas sectional
Magnetic variation: 15E

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
02/20	7,515 × 100 ft	Concrete, good	Medium-intensity lights

Runway 20: VASI, two boxes on the left

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM

122.8

· Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.

Aircraft registered in Mercury from the FAA register

No aircraft on the register list Mercury, NV as the owner's town.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

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The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 - the common traffic frequency.
Used rglrly by doe, and dod and doe helicopters.
Medium-intensity runway lights runway 02/20 out of service until further notice.
3 feet bush 50 feet out on right edge of runway.
Rising trrn out from threshold.
VASI runway 02/20 out of service until further notice.
Caution: runway 20 trrn rises through approach zone - 2.4 degrees runway upslope. Runway 20 clear approach from dthr excpfor 60 feet rising trrn to end of displaced area.
Runway 20 clear approach from dthr xcp for 60 feet asnding trrn to end of displaced area. 2.4 degreess runway slope.
Prior permission required from doe.

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.