Las Cruces International Airport Guide

Las Cruces International Airport is the city-owned public airport for Las Cruces, New Mexico, in Doña Ana County. It sits on a mesa overlooking the Mesilla Valley, about 14 km west of downtown, and covers 2,193 acres at an elevation of 1,358 m. The IATA code is LRU and the ICAO code is KLRU.

The field was built in 1942 and 1943 during the World War II buildup and passed to civilian control in 1955. Three runways serve it, the longest at 7,506 ft (2,288 m), long enough for regional jets and Boeing 737s. There is no control tower, but an instrument landing system is in place. Most of the traffic is not airline flying. Military training, general aviation, medevac and air taxi flights made up nearly all of the 79,880 aircraft operations logged in 2017.

Scheduled passenger service returned in January 2023 after 18 years without it. Advanced Air flies King Air turboprops to Albuquerque under a state rural air service grant. The terminal is small and cannot meet TSA screening rules for larger aircraft. Tenants include the fixed-base operators Southwest Aviation and Francis Aviation and the New Mexico State University Physical Science Laboratory.