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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
Runway
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. |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Calvada Meadows Airport (21 nm south), North Las Vegas Airport (47 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Calvada Meadows Airport (21 nm south), Beatty Airport (39 nm west), North Las Vegas Airport (47 nm southeast).
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 Nevada · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Mercury from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Mercury, NV 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 Nevada 1,292 since 1982 · 221 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Nevada 51 landing places
- Nevada 4,583 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NV65.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.