Portales Municipal
PRZ · KPRZ · Portales, New Mexico · Roosevelt County · map
Portales Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Portales, 4 miles southwest of Portales, New Mexico, 4,078 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 01/19, is 5,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA PRZ · ICAO KPRZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Portales
- Elevation
- 4,078 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 9E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1989
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 5,700 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 08/26 | 4,560 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 26: pulsating on the left, power line 30 ft high 1,200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Clearance delivery | 119.0 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.425 | |
| Prz and aWOS-3PT | 118.175 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 575-478-2864.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Portales from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Portales, New Mexico: 14 piston singles, 1 piston twin, 1 balloon. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in New Mexico.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 3 since 1982, 0 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
- PAPI runway 01 and 19 on continuously; activate or incr intst medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and 08/26 - the common traffic frequency. Medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and 08/26 preset LO intst.
- Fuel available H24 self service via credit card.
- Pvasi out of service indefinitely.
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.