Aircraft Disinsection in Roswell, NM: Roswell Air Center (ROW)

About Roswell Air Center

Roswell’s 13,000-ft runway was laid down for Strategic Air Command and now serves airliners arriving for storage, teardown, or fresh paint in the dry desert air that preserves them. Airlines ferry aircraft in and out of the Air Center on lease returns and redeliveries that often cross borders. The alien souvenirs downtown are optional; the paperwork for an international ferry is not. We complete the treatment and certificate at Roswell before the aircraft departs the country.

On the field at ROW

ROW lies 3 miles south of Roswell, New Mexico, 3,671 feet above sea level. Runway 03/21 gives ROW 13,000 feet of concrete, 150 feet wide, one of 4 runways on the field. ROW is towered and holds a Part 139 airport operating certificate. International arrivals clear Customs at ROW by prior arrangement; it holds landing rights status. The FBO choices at ROW include Avflight Roswell. We work at the ramp or hangar your crew is using. A pre-embarkation treatment here is timed to your boarding and finished before anyone steps aboard.

Where the aircraft disinsection requirement comes from

The requirement belongs to the country you are flying to, and it is met at the last port before that country. Leave Roswell non-stop and ROW is that port, so pre-embarkation treatment of the empty aircraft here, before boarding, satisfies the destinations that accept the method. Add a stop and the picture changes; tell us the routing and we will place the treatment correctly.

Operators leaving ROW meet the disinsection requirement on routes in several directions: transatlantic to Italy, south to Barbados and Chile, and, on ultra-long-range aircraft, east to India. Australia, New Zealand are typical from Roswell. Whatever the destination, an aircraft leaving Roswell Air Center is expected to arrive treated, with a certificate, and pre-embarkation at the last US port is how we deliver that.

The aircraft disinsection process on the ROW ramp

We coordinate with your FBO and crew at ROW, arrive ahead of the agreed time, and treat the aircraft where it is parked once catering and cleaning are complete and the cabin is empty. Cabin, flight deck and holds are treated to the WHO method, the aircraft is ventilated and released for boarding after the required wait, and the certificate goes aboard with the Roswell flight documents. Passengers arrive to a treated aircraft.

ROW at a glance

Countries that require disinsection, served from ROW

From ROW: Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the destinations we serve. The full table of aircraft disinsection requirements by country covers every destination we have verified for ROW departures. Australia and New Zealand carry operator paperwork we help with; if either is on a Roswell itinerary, start early.