Editing Lordsburg, New Mexico (section)

===Lordsburg Municipal Airport===
The Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) began operations in the mid-1920's and was the first airport in New Mexico. Initially the airfield was a cleared parcel of land where pilots could takeoff and land in any direction. Dirt runways were later constructed.<ref>http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLSB AirNav website</ref><ref name="New Mexico Tourism Department">{{cite web |url=http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/bymap/page/DB-place/place/1444.html |title=Lordsburg :: New Mexico Tourism Department |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019101642/http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/bymap/page/DB-place/place/1444.html |archive-date=2007-10-19 }} New Mexico Tourism Department</ref> In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops on [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s transcontinental ''Spirit of Saint Louis'' air tour.{{r|LAT 2020-09-23}} In the early 1950s the airport was served by the original [[Frontier Airlines (1950–1986)]] which flew DC-3s on a route from [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] to [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] that included stops at [[Las Cruces, New Mexico|Las Cruces]], [[Deming, New Mexico|Deming]], and Lordsburg, as well as [[Clifton, Arizona|Clifton]], [[Safford, Arizona|Safford]], and [[Tucson, Arizona]].<ref>Frontier Airlines timetable: November 1, 1950</ref> In the mid-1970's one runway had to be relocated to permit the construction of Interstate 10 around Lordsburg and a new paved runway was then constructed.<ref>1978 New Mexico Aeronautical Chart</ref>  The airport is owned by the City of Lordsburg and is southeast, about one mile outside the city limits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmtourism.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/105/place/588.html |title=Lordsburg Municipal Airport :: New Mexico Tourism Department |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040907090722/http://nmtourism.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/105/place/588.html |archive-date=2004-09-07 }} New Mexico Tourism Department</ref>