LRU

Las Cruces International Airport

ICAO KLRU32.2894°N 106.9220°W4,457 ft / 1,359 mMedium airport
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Las Cruces International Airport (IATA: LRU, ICAO: KLRU) is a medium airport in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. It opened in Feb 1943. It has 3 runways; the longest is 7,506 ft (2,288 m). In 2025 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943
FEB 1943
OpenedLas Cruces International Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Las Cruces Terminal
12/30135° / 315° · LIT
LENGTH7,506 ft2,288 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEConcrete
04/22055° / 235° · LIT
LENGTH7,501 ft2,286 mWIDTH105 ft32 mSURFACEAsphalt
08/26090° / 270° · LIT
LENGTH6,069 ft1,850 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2023–2025
4K
5K
4K
232425

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km300 km50 mi100 mi150 mi200 miABQ · Albuquerque International Sunport · 191 mi / 307 kmABQLRU

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LRU. From the Wikipedia article “Las Cruces International Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers4K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,952of 3,974 · #775 North America · #561 USLongest runway7,506 ft2,288 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,103of 29,823 · #663 North America · #491 USElevation4,457 ft1,359 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=2,734of 43,341 · =1,458 North America · =1,144 USAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =1,078 North America · =1,034 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

3 channels
AWOSAWOS 3119.025
CNTRALBUQUERQUE CNTR128.200
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.700