Albuquerque AFSS (ABQ), New Mexico

The original Albuquerque Flight Service Station (FSS) was commissioned April 1, 1931. The current Automated FSS (AFSS) opened June 28, 1991. Since that time it has consolidated and assumed the duties of the Flight Service Stations located in El Paso, TX (decommissioned August 31, 1993), Gallup and Las Vegas, NM, (decommissioned November 25, 1994), Deming, Tucumcari, and Truth or Consequences, NM (decommissioned March 31, 1995), and Carlsbad and Roswell, NM (decommissioned June 30, 1995).

The ABQ AFSS is responsible for providing services to the entire state of New Mexico as well as the Texas counties of El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culbertson. The Albuquerque Flight Watch area coincides with Albuquerque Center (ARTCC) boundaries and includes parts of Arizona, all of New Mexico and parts of West Texas.