Silver Springs Airport
SPZ · KSPZ · Silver Springs, Nevada · Lyon County · map
Silver Springs Airport is a public-use airport owned by Lyon County, 2 miles southwest of Silver Springs, Nevada, 4,265 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 6,001 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 16 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 12,660 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SPZ · ICAO KSPZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Lyon County
- Elevation
- 4,265 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1987
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 6,001 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 06: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 24: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Approach and departure | 120.85 | |
| Spz and aWOS-2 | 120.475 | |
| Fallon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.8 |
Automated weather (AWOS-2), by phone 775-577-2624.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 12,660, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Silver Springs from the FAA register
11 aircraft are registered to owners in Silver Springs, Nevada: 6 piston singles, 3 drones, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 1 glider. 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 Nevada.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 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
- 150 an X 150 feet blast pad both ends.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 06 and 24; PAPI runway 06 and 24; medium-intensity runway lights runway 06/24 - the common traffic frequency.
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.