| Leesville Airport | |
| Faa: | L39 |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner-Oper: | City of Leesville |
| City-Served: | Leesville |
| Location: | Leesville, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Timezone: | Central Time Zone |
| Utc: | UTC-6 |
| Elevation-F: | 281 |
| Elevation-M: | 85.6 |
| Pushpin Map: | Louisiana#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of L39 in Louisiana |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Label: | L39 |
| Pushpin Mark: | Airplane silhouette.svg |
| R1-Number: | 18/36 |
| R1-Length-F: | 3,807 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,160 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat1-Header: | Based aircraft |
| Stat1-Data: | 15 |
| Stat2-Header: | Operations |
| Stat2-Data: | 15,000 |
| Stat-Year: | 2016 |
| Footnotes: | Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1] |
Leesville Airport is a city-owned, public-use general aviation airport located 4nmi west of Leesville, a city in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States.[2] [3]
Due to the small size of Leesville Airport, it has been assigned the three-letter FAA location identifier of L39, but has no corresponding IATA or ICAO designations.[4]
Leesville Airport is listed as a "Local/Basic" airport in the 2017-2021 National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems Report.[5] Between 2017 and 2021, it was expected to receive $4,914,250 in developmental funding.[6]
Leesville Airport covers an area of 120acres at an elevation of 281 feet (85.6 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway: 18/36 is 3,807 by 75 feet (1,460 x 23 m) with an asphalt surface.
For the 12-month period ending September 22, 2016, the airport had 15,000 aircraft operations, an average of 41 per day: 67% local general aviation (10,000), 20% itinerant general aviation (3,000), and 13% military (2,000). At that time there were 15 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine (14), and 7% helicopter (1).