KLRU — Las Cruces International Airport
4 aircraft this investigation tracks were recorded on the ground at Las Cruces International Airport, Las Cruces, NM, across 7 recovered ground visits.
No recovered ground visit at this field falls inside the window of a sourced Charlie Kirk, Erika Kirk, or TPUSA event. That is a statement about the sourced event list and the recovered archive coverage, not a statement that nothing happened here.
Every recovered ground visit at this field
One row is one continuous run of on-ground positions. Times are UTC, exactly as the archives recorded them.
| Date (UTC) | Aircraft | What it is | Ground window (UTC) | km from field | Ground fixes | Near a sourced event? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-16 | N1098L | LASAI Aviation II Global 6500, callsign AXEL10 | 21:59–22:00 | 1.28 | 9 | — |
| 2025-06-04 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 23:10–23:53 | 0.15 | 2 | — |
| 2025-06-10 | N79SC | Phoenix-area Learjet 60 often with N582MM | 03:40–03:54 | 0.2 | 12 | — |
| 2026-01-21 | N40JD | Premier 1 at Provo on 10 September 2025 | 17:58–17:59 | 0.94 | 3 | — |
| 2026-01-25 | N40JD | Premier 1 at Provo on 10 September 2025 | 20:39–20:40 | 0.84 | 13 | — |
| 2026-04-20 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 17:07–17:09 | 0.88 | 7 | — |
| 2026-04-20 | N872RA | Santa Ana-based Hawker 800 | 18:32 only | 0.56 | 1 | — |
The field
Las Cruces, NM. This page is the complete recovered record for this field: every ground visit and every flight leg by an aircraft this investigation tracks.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ICAO / ident | KLRU |
| Name | Las Cruces International Airport |
| Where | Las Cruces, NM |
| IATA | LRU |
| Type | medium airport |
| Elevation | 4456 ft |
| Coordinates | 32.289398, -106.921997 |
| Scheduled airline service | yes |
| Aircraft tracked here | 4 |
| Recovered ground visits | 7 |
| Visits landing on a sourced event | 0 |
| Recovered flight legs | 0 |
What this page cannot tell you
- Presence is not purpose, and it is not occupancy. No ADS-B record places any person aboard any aircraft.
- An absent day is not an absent aircraft. Volunteer receiver coverage is uneven, and a jet parked with its transponder off is invisible. Absence here is a coverage fact.
- Every count on this page is a count of the aircraft this investigation tracks, not of everything that used the field. Most aircraft at a general-aviation airport are flight-school and charter traffic, and many carry the FAA's ordinary Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed privacy flag, which is a routine owner filing and not a sign of anything.
- 2022 is thin — the free archives begin in February 2023; before that only ADS-B Exchange's first-of-the-month sample days exist.
Related
- N1098L — LASAI Aviation II Global 6500, callsign AXEL10
- N40JD — Premier 1 at Provo on 10 September 2025
- N79SC — Phoenix-area Learjet 60 often with N582MM
- N872RA — Santa Ana-based Hawker 800
- All airports in this investigation
- Every interesting date, all aircraft
- Investigating Deleted Flights
- Planes that followed Charlie and Erika