Columbus Municipal Airport

Columbus Municipal Airport is an abandoned airport in New Mexico. Its origins date to 1916 when it was used by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as a military airfield during the Pancho Villa Expedition.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in New Mexico, United States of America
  • Also known as: “CUS”
  • Address: NM

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Columbus and Puerto Palomas.

Town
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is an incorporated village in , New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of a 1916 attack by Mexican general Francisco "Pancho" Villa that caused the United States to send 10,000 troops there in the Mexican Expedition.

Town
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de Villa, also known simply as Palomas or as General Rodrigo M. Quevedo, is a small town of 4,688 people in the municipality of , in the state of . It borders the village of , in the .

Columbus Municipal Airport

Latitude
31.82389° or 31° 49′ 26″ north
Longitude
-107.62929° or 107° 37′ 46″ west
Elevation
4,068 feet (1,240 metres)
Operator
Amen Wardy
IATA airport code
CUS
FAA airport code
0NM0
Open location code
853JR9FC+H7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1107199081
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
5462687
Wiki­data ID
Q14705965
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Columbus Municipal Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Columbus Municipal Airport (tugpahanan sa Estados Unidos, New Mexico)”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus Municipal Airport”
  • Chinese: “哥倫布市立機場 (新墨西哥州)”
  • French: “0NM0”
  • French: “aérodrome de Columbus Muni”
  • French: “Aérodrome de Columbus Muni”
  • Indonesian: “CUS”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Municipal Columbus”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس میونسپل ہوائی اڈا”

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