Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport

Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: KSXU – FAA LID: SXU
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Town of Santa Rosa
Serves Santa Rosa, New Mexico
Elevation AMSL 4,792 ft / 1,461 m
Coordinates 34°56′08″N 104°38′33″W / 34.93556°N 104.64250°W / 34.93556; -104.64250
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
1/19 5,013 1,528 Asphalt
8/26 4,294 1,309 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft operations 2,130

Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport (ICAO: KSXU, FAA LID: SXU, formerly I58) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Santa Rosa, a town in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. It is owned by the Town of Santa Rosa.[1]

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SXU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA[2] (which assigned SXU to Soddu, Ethiopia[3]).

Facilities and aircraft

Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport covers an area of 401 acres (162 ha) at an elevation of 4,792 feet (1,461 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 5,013 by 75 feet (1,528 x 23 m) and 8/26 is 4,294 by 60 feet (1,309 x 18 m). For the 12-month period ending April 9, 2008, the airport had 2,130 aircraft operations, an average of 177 per month: 94% general aviation and 6% air taxi.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 FAA Airport Master Record for SXU (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2009-05-07.
  2. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: KSXU - Santa Rosa, New Mexico
  3. ↑ Great Circle Mapper: SXU / HASD - Soddu, Ethiopia
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