Lea County Regional Airport Guide

Lea County Regional Airport serves Hobbs, New Mexico, in the southeastern corner of the state near the Texas border. It sits about 6.4 km west of the city. The IATA code is HOB and the ICAO code is KHOB. Lea County owns and runs the field, which it took over from the city of Hobbs on November 19, 1945.

Three asphalt runways cover the airport: 3/21 is 7,398 ft, 12/30 is 6,002 ft and 17/35 is 4,998 ft. The FAA counted 15,445 aircraft operations in the year ending January 31, 2023, about 42 a day. One terminal handles all arrivals and departures. It was expanded in the late 2000s and again in the late 2010s. Two fixed-base operators, Tailwind Aviation and Christian Aero, serve general aviation.

Continental Airlines brought the first air mail in May 1940 and began passenger flights to Albuquerque, El Paso, San Antonio and Tulsa the same year. Trans-Texas Airways replaced Continental in 1963. Mesa was the main carrier for more than 22 years until New Mexico Airlines took over in 2007. Continental Express added Houston service in 2011, and those flights later became United Express. Today United Express flies to Denver and Houston-Intercontinental, and JSX flies to Dallas-Love Field.