Lea County-Zip Franklin Memorial Airport

Lovington, United States

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Lea County-Zip Franklin Memorial Airport

Lovington, United States

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3979 ft

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General aviation airport serving Lea County, New Mexico.

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Lovington, United States

Lea County-Zip Franklin Memorial Airport (ICAO: KE06) is a small general aviation airport located near Lovington, New Mexico, in Lea County. It serves private pilots, agricultural operations, and light aircraft traffic in the southeastern corner of New Mexico. The airport operates without scheduled commercial airline service and functions primarily as a reliever and utility airfield for the region. Lea County also has Lea County Regional Airport (HOB) in Hobbs, which handles the area's more substantial general aviation and limited commercial traffic. The facility is named in part to honor Zip Franklin, reflecting local community recognition of an individual significant to the area's aviation history.

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Ground access to the airport is primarily by private vehicle, as no formal public transit service connects Lovington to the airfield.

Notable facts

›The airport's ICAO identifier is KE06 and it has no assigned IATA code.
›Located in Lovington, the seat of Lea County in southeastern New Mexico.
›Serves general aviation operations including private, agricultural, and light aircraft.
›No scheduled commercial airline service operates from this facility.
›Lea County is also served by Lea County Regional Airport (HOB) in nearby Hobbs.

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Lea County–Zip Franklin Memorial Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. Located three nautical miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Lovington, New Mexico, it is also known as Lovington Airport. The airport is named for aviator Oliver Gene "Zip" Franklin. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

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