KBIF Biggs AAF (Fort Bliss)

PROBABLE 60%

Runway 4 — wind slightly favors it, low confidence

Based mostly on wind; no traffic or ATIS to confirm. No D-ATIS feed here — a voice ATIS/AWOS may exist; check the frequency. ADS-B tracking just started here — traffic history is still building.

certainty: 60% evidence: NONE Class D

Wind 020° true at 3 kt · VFR · 51 min old · from KELP (2.2 nm away)

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4 58% 13554 ft · 3 kt head, 1 kt x-left

22 42% 13554 ft · 3 kt TAIL, 1 kt x-right · right traffic

Active NOTAMs affecting runways

APCH OTS RWY 22 until 11-30 23:59Z

[US DOD PROCEDURAL NOTAM] INSTRUMENT APPROACH PROCEDURE NOT AUTHORIZED ILS OR LOC RWY 22, NA WHEN TOWER CLOSED

LIGHTING RWY 22 until 11-16 14:00Z

RWY 22 RWY ALIGNMENT INDICATOR LGT UNSERVICEABLE

Why — evidence behind this answer

Runway 4

WIND 3 kt headwind, 1 kt left crosswind 51 min ago +0.09

Runway 22

WIND 3 kt TAILWIND, 1 kt right crosswind 51 min ago -0.25

Sources consulted

source	status	age	note
D_ATIS	UNAVAILABLE		No D-ATIS at this field
METAR	OK	51 min	Nearest station KELP (2.2 nm away)
ADSB	WARMING_UP	1628 min	Only 0 min of track history so far
NOTAM	OK
CIFP	NOT_CONFIGURED		Instrument procedures: phase 4

Recent operations

No operations observed in the last hour. (Only 0 min of track history so far)

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KBIF field & runways

Biggs AAF (Fort Bliss), Fort Bliss/El Paso/, Texas. Field elevation 3947 ft. Class D airspace. Towered. Private use. Magnetic variation 8.0°E on record, 7.4°E today.

The FAA's variation of record is the number this field was surveyed against; the second is where north points now, from WMM2025. It is moving 0.075°/year west — about 1° every 13 years — which is why runway numbers eventually stop matching their pavement.

Runway data from the FAA NASR 01 Oct 2026 cycle. Where NASR locates both thresholds, the true heading is the bearing between them rather than NASR's whole-degree alignment. Magnetic is that heading against *today's* declination from WMM2025, not the field's variation of record — so it can differ from the chart by the gap between the two shown above. The number painted on the runway is the one ATC uses.
Runway	True	Magnetic	Number	Length	Surface	Pattern	Notes
22	223.7°	216.4°	matches	13,554 ft	CONC	right	ILS
4	43.7°	36.4°	matches	13,554 ft	CONC	left

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KBIF ☆ Biggs AAF (Fort Bliss)