Sierra Vista Municipal Airport / Libby Army Air Field

Sierra Vista Municipal Airport / Libby Army Air Field (KFHU) is a medium airport in Fort Huachuca / Sierra Vista, AZ. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KFHU or IATA code FHU. It sits in North America.

Sierra Vista Municipal Airport / Libby Army Air Field is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 12,001-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 12,001 ft (3,658 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Sierra Vista Municipal Airport / Libby Army Air Field sits at 4,719 ft above sea level. Hot-and-high conditions can meaningfully reduce takeoff performance in summer — planners should factor density altitude into payload and fuel decisions.

Local operations run on America/Phoenix. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 423 departing and 433 arriving private-jet legs at KFHU across the next six months of operator inventory. 3 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KFHU are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Sierra Vista Municipal Airport, a joint-use civil-military airport which shares facilities with Libby Army Airfield, is located on Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, a city and U.S. Army installation in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The airport has three runways and one helipad. It is mostly used for military aviation for the surrounding military base.