Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport
Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | City of Alamogordo | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Alamogordo, New Mexico | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,200 ft / 1,280 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°50′24″N 105°59′26″W / 32.84000°N 105.99056°W | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration | |||||||||||||||
Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport (IATA: ALM, ICAO: KALM, FAA LID: ALM) is a city-owned public-use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, a city in Otero County, New Mexico. It opened in 1959 and was formerly known as Alamogordo Municipal Airport. The airport was the home for Black Hills Aviation, with a fleet of fire fighting aircraft. The company was bought out by Neptune Aviation in 1993 and moved to Missoula, Montana. Neptune still bases some of its current fleet of British Aerospace 146 jets at Alamogordo during active forest fire seasons. The airport also sees large MD-87 firefighting jets operated by Erickson Aero Tanker.
The airport does not presently have any commercial air service. New Mexico Airlines discontinued service to the airport on April 1, 2012 after the airport lost eligibility for subsidies through the Essential Air Service program.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 414 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 505 enplanements in 2009, and 369 in 2010. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation airport (the commercial service category requires at least 2,500 enplanements per year).