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Lea County-Jal Airport

32.13110°N
-103.15500°W
ARR / DAY
2
100.0%
DEP / DAY
4
33.3%

Lea County-Jal Airport (KE26) is a small general aviation airport located in Jal, NM, 50 mi north west of Odessa. It features 2 runways with the longest being 4,704 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 2 arrivals and 4 departures per day on average over the last 1 days.

Current weather

From KHOB, 39 mi away (KE26 does not publish METAR)

43m ago
Temp
79°F
Wind
10 kts
180°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KHOB 300655Z AUTO 18010KT 10SM CLR 26/14 A3002 RMK AO2

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

27
80% of ops
137 land · 0 TO
19
13% of ops
22 land · 0 TO
09
6% of ops
10 land · 17 TO
01
1% of ops
2 land · 0 TO
Runway 27 carries 80% of operations (137 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 13%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

27 137 landings
UA 1%
19 22 landings
UA 0%
09 10 landings
UA 0%
01 2 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 1% unstable-approach rate (2 UA events from 137 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
6.2
flights/day · 187 total
Busy hour (local)
12pm
also 4pm · 7pm
Day vs night
87%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–7pm local, averaging 6.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (5.2 vs 6.9 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (61% of 187 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.900
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZFW
Elevation:
3,118 ft
Mag var:
9° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 07:38 UTC