Grant County
SVC · KSVC · Silver City, New Mexico · Grant County · map
Grant County is a public-use airport owned by Grant County, 10 miles southeast of Silver City, New Mexico, 5,446 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 6,803 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A-1).
Weather right now KSVC · observed 1:35 pm MDT (19:35 UTC), 19 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: scattered clouds at 4,800 feet
- Temperature 75°F (24°C), dew point 49°F (10°C)
- Altimeter 30.22 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSVC 061935Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT048 24/10 A3022 RMK AO2 T02380095
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SVC · ICAO KSVC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Grant County
- Elevation
- 5,446 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A-1
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Albuquerque sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 8E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1942
Runways 4
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 6,803 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 17/35 | 5,473 × 75 ft | Dirt, good | |
| 12/30 | 4,675 × 75 ft | Dirt, good | |
| 03/21 | 4,537 × 80 ft | Dirt, fair |
- Runway 08: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 26: localizer with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights (MALS)
- Runway 17: threshold displaced 109 ft, fence on the approach
- Runway 35: power line 35 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
- Runway 12: fence 5 ft high 100 ft from the end
- Runway 30: tower 30 ft high 800 ft from the end
- Runway 03: pole 35 ft high 800 ft from the end
- Runway 21: fence on the approach
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Svc and aWOS-3 | 126.725 | |
| Animas and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.45 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 575-388-5947.
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 City from the FAA register
14 aircraft are registered to owners in Silver City, New Mexico: 13 piston singles, 1 turboprop. 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 · 6 since 1982, 1 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
- 5621 feet crane northeast of airport 8800 feet from runway 26 on centerline.
- Activate mals runway 26; runway end identifier lights runway 08; medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency.
- Daylight VFR condition only.
- Daylight VFR condition only.
- Daylight VFR condition only.
- Dthr marked by tires.
- 39 inches tall loctd 9 feet from the edge of taxiway A5.
- Approach ratio 16:1 from dthr.
- Taxiway A2, A3 and A4 unusable cockpit to main gear length ovr 40 feet.
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.