Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Santa Rosa, a town in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. It is owned by the Town of Santa Rosa. The original runway, 08-26, was a section of old U.S. Highway 66 prior to the construction of Interstate 40. The second runway, 01-19, was added in the mid-1990's.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned SXU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATAGreat Circle Mapper: KSXU - Santa Rosa, New Mexico (which assigned SXU to Soddu, EthiopiaGreat Circle Mapper: SXU / HASD - Soddu, Ethiopia).
Facilities and aircraft Santa Rosa Route 66 Airport covers an area of at an elevation of 4,791 feet (1,460 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 1/19 is 5,013 by 75 feet (1,528 x 23 m) and 8/26 is 4,294 by 60 feet (1,309 x 18 m).
For the 12-month period ending April 1, 2021, the airport had 4,150 aircraft operations, an average of 80 per week: 96% general aviation, 3% air taxi, and <1% military.
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