HOB

Lea County Regional Airport

ICAO KHOB32.6875°N 103.2170°W3,661 ft / 1,116 mMedium airport
On the map
Lea County Regional Airport - New Mexico
United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

Lea County Regional Airport (IATA: HOB, ICAO: KHOB) is a medium airport in Hobbs, New Mexico, United States. It opened in Jun 1942. It has 3 runways; the longest is 8,000 ft (2,438 m). In 2025 it handled 57 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942
JUN 1942
OpenedLea County Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
04/22045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH8,000 ft2,438 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
13/31135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH6,002 ft1,829 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
17/35180° / 360°
LENGTH4,370 ft1,332 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
33K
29K
32K
46K
55K
18K
24K
36K
44K
53K
57K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsUnited Express 2JSX (airline) 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HOB. From the Wikipedia article “Lea County Regional Airport” (revision of 6 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers57K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,040of 3,974 · #470 North America · #317 USLongest runway8,000 ft2,438 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,749of 29,823 · =583 North America · =438 USElevation3,661 ft1,116 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#4,086of 43,341 · #2,156 North America · #1,695 USAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =885 USRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =83 North America · =81 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels
ATISATIS119.750
CNTRFORT WORTH CNTR133.100
CTAFCTAF120.650
GNDGND121.900
RDOALBUQUERQUE RDO122.200
TWRHOBBS TWR120.650
UNICUNICOM122.950