Airport type Public Serves Portales, New Mexico 1/19 5,700 Elevation 1,243 m | Owner City of Portales Elevation AMSL 4,078 ft / 1,243 m 5,700 1,737 | |
Portales Municipal Airport (ICAO: KPRZ, FAA LID: PRZ) is a city-owned, public-use airport located four nautical miles (7 km) southwest of the central business district of Portales, a city in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009–2013, it is classified as a general aviation airport.
Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned PRZ by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned PRZ to Prineville Airport in Prineville, Oregon).
Facilities and aircraft
Portales Municipal Airport covers an area of 502 acres (203 ha) at an elevation of 4,078 feet (1,243 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 5,700 by 60 feet (1,737 x 18 m) and 8/26 is 4,560 by 60 feet (1,390 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending April 4, 2008, the airport had 20,000 aircraft operations, an average of 54 per day: 85% general aviation and 15% military. At that time there were 21 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 9% helicopter.