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Lea County-Jal Airport

32.13110°N
-103.15500°W
ARR / DAY
2
5.9%
DEP / DAY
2
18.8%

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 2 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

From KINK, 24 mi away (KE26 does not publish METAR)

42m ago
Temp
32°F
Wind
6 kts
120°
Visib
0 m
Ceil
KINK 281830Z AUTO 12006KT CLR 35/14 A3013 RMK T03500140 MADISHF

Runway intelligence

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

27
88% of ops
59 land · 0 TO
19
10% of ops
7 land · 1 TO
01
1% of ops
1 land · 1 TO
09
0% of ops
0 land · 9 TO
Runway 27 carries 88% of operations (59 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 19 at 10%.

Approach quality

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

27 59 landings
UA 0%
19 7 landings
UA 14%
01 1 landings
UA 0%
09 0 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 27 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 59 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
4.1
flights/day · 123 total
Busy hour (local)
12pm
also 1pm · 5pm
Day vs night
89%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 12pm–5pm local, averaging 4.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (3.4 vs 4.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (63% of 122 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

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p
© SkyMeter · All flight data subject to ODbL attribution · Updated 19:12 UTC