CircumFlightKARA ACADIANA RGNL
New Iberia, LA · FAA identifier ARA · Accident history (NTSB)
091°53′02.0″W
Conditions
Category: VFR Wind: 060° at 8 kt Visibility: 10 sm Temp/Dewpoint: 17°C / 1°C Altimeter: 30.15" Hg Sky: --- ft - CLR Density Alt: 64 ft
Category: VFR Wind: 060° at 8 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Weather: KARA 141723Z Sky: 25,000 ft - FEW
Category: VFR Wind: 080° at 7 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 21,000 ft - FEW
Category: VFR Wind: 080° at 12 kt gust 18 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 25,000 ft - SCT
Category: VFR Wind: 100° at 13 kt gust 20 kt Visibility: more than 6 sm Sky: 22,000 ft - SCT
Runways
Frequencies
All frequencies (13)
| Use | Frequency | Sector | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOWER | 125.0 | 0600-2100 | |
| TOWER | 239.3 | 0600-2100 | |
| GND | 121.7 | ||
| CTAF | 125.000 | ||
| UNICOM | 122.950 | ||
| ASOS | 133.325 | ||
| CLEARANCE | 121.7 | ||
| LAFAYETTE CLEARANCE | 118.05 | WHEN TWR CLSD | |
| EMERG | 121.5 | ||
| HOUSTON CENTER | 126.35 | ||
| HOUSTON CENTER | 338.25 | ||
| LAFAYETTE APCH DEP | 121.1 | ||
| LAFAYETTE APCH DEP | 268.7 |
Procedures and charts
Charts open from the FAA's digital Terminal Procedures Publication, cycle 2612, effective 11/26/2026 12:00:00 AM to 12/24/2026 12:00:00 AM. Not for navigation; check the cycle before flight.
NOTAMs
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NOTAMs as captured by CircumFlight from the FAA's NOTAM distribution; not FAA data, and not necessarily complete or current. Always get an official briefing before flight.
PLAIN-LANGUAGE READING - BEST EFFORT. Abbreviations are expanded automatically and may be wrong or incomplete. The raw NOTAM above is the official text; fly by it, not by this.
RUNWAYS (1)
TOWER LIGHTS (3)
Release queue
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Release times (the slot at the departure fix) and delay causes from traffic management, derived by CircumFlight, as of 2201Z; not FAA data and not for operational use. Get your release from ATC. Aircraft whose owners have asked the FAA to limit the display of their flights are not shown.
Arrivals and departures
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Flights seen in the last five minutes, as of 2200Z. A departure at a gate has its departure clearance and has not yet moved; a place marked (est.) is the nearest stand to the aircraft's last surface position. Derived by CircumFlight from air traffic management feeds; not FAA data and not for operational use. Times are estimates from distance and ground speed. Aircraft whose owners have asked the FAA to limit the display of their flights are not shown.
Statistics
Grants
| FY | Grants | Awarded | AIP | Other programs | Tower ops | $ / op | US $ / op | Share of US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 | $85,500 | $85,500 | — | 125,960 | $0.68 | $51.72 | 0.00% |
| 2011 | 1 | $300,000 | $300,000 | — | 108,151 | $2.77 | $55.49 | 0.01% |
| 2014 | 1 | $188,439 | $188,439 | — | 89,954 | $2.09 | $57.58 | 0.01% |
| 2015 | 1 | $2,084,283 | $2,084,283 | — | 74,353 | $28.03 | $52.92 | 0.07% |
| 2016 | 1 | $90,000 | $90,000 | — | 56,379 | $1.60 | $52.74 | 0.00% |
| 2017 | 1 | $766,944 | $766,944 | — | 63,582 | $12.06 | $55.49 | 0.02% |
| 2018 | 1 | $130,885 | $130,885 | — | 63,433 | $2.06 | $60.64 | 0.00% |
| 2021 | 3 | $1,163,226 | $993,142 | $170,084 | 50,874 | $22.86 | $193.37 | 0.01% |
| 2022 | 1 | $289,800 | $0 | $289,800 | 41,932 | $6.91 | $136.54 | 0.00% |
| 2025 | 2 | $438,658 | $250,000 | $188,658 | — | — | — | 0.00% |
Other programs: pandemic relief (CARES, CRRSA, ARPA), the infrastructure law (AIG, ATRM, FCT) and ARRA. US $ / op is that fiscal year's awards to towered fields divided by those fields' operations, so it compares like with like; Share of US is this field's awards against every award in the FAA's report for the year. A year without counts has no tower figures.
Weighted comparison (CircumFlight's own estimate)
An airline operation and a light-aircraft operation are not the same use of an airport, so this view weights itinerant operations before dividing: air carrier 32, air taxi and military 4, general aviation 1, roughly in proportion to fuel burned, and so to the fuel and ticket taxes that fund the Airport and Airway Trust Fund. The weights are CircumFlight's, not the FAA's; local (pattern) operations are left out. The US column uses the same weights over every towered field with an award that year.
| FY | Air carrier | Air taxi + mil. | General aviation | Units | $ / unit | US $ / unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 175 | 20,538 | 24,181 | 111,933 | $0.76 | $4.92 |
| 2011 | 282 | 23,077 | 18,000 | 119,332 | $2.51 | $5.15 |
| 2014 | 226 | 14,948 | 13,517 | 80,541 | $2.34 | $5.04 |
| 2015 | 207 | 10,315 | 12,935 | 60,819 | $34.27 | $4.33 |
| 2016 | 148 | 5,592 | 11,309 | 38,413 | $2.34 | $4.31 |
| 2017 | 102 | 16,371 | 10,107 | 78,855 | $9.73 | $4.47 |
| 2018 | 55 | 19,721 | 11,058 | 91,702 | $1.43 | $4.76 |
| 2021 | 104 | 6,543 | 10,832 | 40,332 | $28.84 | $18.37 |
| 2022 | 84 | 5,078 | 10,294 | 33,294 | $8.70 | $11.81 |
| All | 1,383 | 122,183 | 122,233 | 655,221 | $7.78 | — |
| Category | Grants | Awarded | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runways | 2 | $2,272,722 | 41% | |
| Taxiways | 4 | $2,193,808 | 40% | |
| Buildings, roads and utilities | 2 | $438,658 | 7.9% | |
| Planning and environmental | 1 | $300,000 | 5.4% | |
| Safety and security | 2 | $216,385 | 3.9% | |
| Pandemic relief | 2 | $116,162 | 2.1% |
Categories are read from the FAA's project wording by CircumFlight's rules (noise mitigation first, then the pandemic programs, terminals, runways, taxiways, aprons, lighting and navaids, safety and security, snow removal and equipment, land, planning, buildings and roads). A grant that lists several projects is counted under its largest line item here and shown under it below; a line item with several projects takes the first one named.
| FY | Grant | Category | Amount | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3-22-0036-028-2025 2025-09-10 |
Buildings, roads and utilities | $250,000 | Construct/Expand Hangar |
| 2025 | 3-22-0036-029-2025 2025-09-10 |
Buildings, roads and utilities | $188,658 | Construct/Expand Hangar |
| 2022 | 3-22-0036-026-2022 2022-08-24 |
Taxiways | $289,800 | Reconstruct Taxilane |
| 2021 | 3-22-0036-023-2021 2021-07-21 |
Taxiways | $1,047,064 $993K AIP |
Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2021 | 3-22-0036-024-2021 2021-04-05 |
Pandemic relief | $57,162 | CRRSA Act Contract Tower,CRRSA Act Funds |
| 2021 | 3-22-0036-025-2021 2021-08-03 |
Pandemic relief | $59,000 | General ARPA |
| 2018 | seq. 021 | Safety and security | $130,885 | Conduct Miscellaneous Study - Conduct Study to Relocate ARFF Station |
| 2017 | seq. 20 | Taxiways | $766,944 | Rehabilitate Taxiway |
| 2016 | seq. 19 | Taxiways | $90,000 | Widen Taxiway |
| 2015 | seq. 18 | Runways | $2,084,283 | Rehabilitate Runway - 16/34 |
| 2014 | seq. 17 | Runways | $188,439 | Rehabilitate Runway [Design] - 16/34 |
| 2011 | seq. 16 | Planning and environmental | $300,000 | Update Airport Master Plan Study |
| 2010 | seq. 14 | Safety and security | $85,500 | Wildlife Hazard Assessments |
From the FAA's Airport Improvement Program grant history reports, FY2010–FY2025 (federal fiscal years, October to September), as the FAA published them. Every program in those reports is counted: from FY2020 they include CARES, CRRSA and ARPA relief, and from FY2021 the infrastructure law's AIG, terminal (ATRM) and contract tower (FCT) grants, so a total here is not AIP alone; the AIP share is shown separately. Tower operations are the FAA's ATADS counts for towered fields, calendar years 2010 to 2024; a field without a tower has no counts, and a year's dollars per operation divide a fiscal year's awards by the same-numbered calendar year's count. Grants to state block programs, system plans and proposed airports carry no airport identifier and are not shown on airport pages. Ranks count airports with at least one award in these years. Figures are as published and may be revised by the FAA; this is not FAA analysis. Sources: FAA AIP grant histories, FAA ATADS airport operations. What a sponsor agrees to in accepting a grant: FAA grant assurances.
Nearby airports
| Airport | Name | Distance | Bearing | Conditions | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIYA | ABBEVILLE CHRIS CRUSTA MEML | 11.1 nm | 250° W | VFR | VRB 4 kt |
| KLFT | LAFAYETTE RGNL/PAUL FOURNET FLD | 11.4 nm | 332° NW | VFR | VRB 4 kt |
| 2R1 | LE MAIRE MEML | 14.1 nm | 126° SE | — | |
| 3R2 | LE GROS MEML | 32.0 nm | 284° W | — | |
| KOPL | ST LANDRY PARISH | 33.2 nm | 340° N | — | |
| KPTN | HARRY P WILLIAMS MEML | 34.5 nm | 125° SE | VFR | 070° 4 kt |
| 4R7 | EUNICE | 38.0 nm | 313° NW | — |
Private-use fields nearby (25)
| LS38 | RICHARD'S | 1.7 nm | 153° SE | — | |
| 33LA | SKY RANCH | 5.7 nm | 290° W | — | |
| 1LA9 | JEFF ISL | 6.7 nm | 231° SW | — | |
| 62LA | TOW'S FLD | 7.1 nm | 254° W | — | |
| LA91 | GARY LANDING STRIP | 11.3 nm | 013° N | — | |
| LA76 | SPILLERS CLUB | 11.6 nm | 354° N | — | |
| LA16 | CASTILLE FLD | 12.5 nm | 004° N | — | |
| 35LA | MS PATS | 15.7 nm | 256° W | — | |
| LS34 | BORDELON AIRPARK | 16.4 nm | 003° N | — | |
| 0LA6 | HARMON | 16.4 nm | 321° NW | — | |
| LA41 | DUPUIS | 16.6 nm | 350° N | — | |
| 10LA | INDUSTRIAL HELICOPTERS INC | 16.7 nm | 319° NW | — | |
| LA60 | LIVE OAK LANDING STRIP | 18.0 nm | 222° SW | — | |
| LS68 | KEN GUIDRY NR 1 | 18.2 nm | 250° W | — | |
| LA61 | KENAN AIRSTRIP | 18.7 nm | 265° W | — | |
| LA75 | GLENN'S STRIP | 19.9 nm | 300° NW | — | |
| 0LS5 | STAFFORD | 20.6 nm | 321° NW | — | |
| 2LA0 | CENTRAL INDUSTRIES | 20.6 nm | 224° SW | — | |
| LS21 | SIEVERS FLD | 20.8 nm | 311° NW | — | |
| 22LS | COUVILLION | 22.1 nm | 348° N | — | |
| LA30 | PHOENIX | 22.5 nm | 304° NW | — | |
| 12LS | HAINS AIRSTRIP | 22.5 nm | 292° W | — | |
| LS91 | TIM BULLARD MEML | 23.3 nm | 348° N | — | |
| 08LS | AILERON | 23.6 nm | 341° N | — | |
| LS09 | A J PATROL | 24.2 nm | 285° W | — |
Distances are great-circle from the airport reference point; bearings and winds are true. Conditions are each field's own METAR from the last two hours; a dash means it has none.