Angel Fire Airport is a county-owned public-use

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located north of the

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of Angel Fire, a town in

Colfax County, New Mexico Colfax County is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,750. Its county seat is Raton. It is south from the Colorado state line. This county was named for Schuyler Colfax (18231885), seventeen ...

. It is included in the US

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for 2011–2015, which falls under the US FAA category of "

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facility".

Facilities and aircraft

Angel Fire Airport covers an area of at an

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of above

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. It has one

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designated 17/35 with an

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surface measuring . For the 12-month period ending April 30, 2010, the airport had 30 aircraft operations, an average of 2 per month: 67%

and 33%

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