ABQ has the following airports:
- The International Sunport (KABQ) - close to downtown for historic reasons
- Double Eagle (KAEG) - the official GA ghetto
- Mid-Valley Airpark (E98)
- Sandia Airpark (1N1)
Some folks get displaced as far as Belen (E80) and Moriarty (0E0).
The International is the best place for flight training, especially initial training and multi-engine and commercial. Not much use to an RV driver otherwise, unless you want to have an emergency, in which case it's the best place.
Double Eagle has a bunch of RV-ers, although I'm not in a good contact with them. The airport is expensive and a typical city-run affair in many respects. Good luck with that hangar waiting list.
Mid-Valley is my home base. It's about 30 minute drive from the middle-class subdivisions that Mayor Marty's corrupt developer friends built in 2000s, god bless their hearts. It's very, very nice. I pay $50/mo for a covered parking. I bet you can can find a hangar for $250/mo there, but getting in contact with the right people takes time. Just finding out who owns what hangars is a challenge. On the other hand, you can often sub from house owners. Mid-Valley doesn't have many RVs, however. It's mostly the old retired people with their Cubs and Bonanzas. RV-12 is disproportionally represented at Mid-Valley, because LSA LOL.
Sandia is the best for rich RV owners, IMHO. You're going to live in a $250k house in Eastern Heights area anyway, so it's 20-30 minute drive. Sandia is our liveliest hub of aviation, with all sort of ex-USAF, businessmen, endowment hippies, and other happy people roosting there and flying all sorts of machinery, from twins to gyrocopters. If I was serious about RV building, I would base there for sure. Their runway kinda sucks, but it's not too bad.
Moriarty is the best if you want to buy a hangar, rather than rent. Also, it's a famous glider capital. Otherwise it's not much (AFAIK) and it's a bit too remote. I'm still shocked that they built the crosswind runway in 2013. Belen wanted one for years to no awail, and now this. It was so sudden. BTW they can be snowed in and then they put a notice on AWOS 'only 3000 ft cleared'. It basically never snows at Mid-Valley, and maybe sprinkles a little at KAEG.
Belen is too far down south, but a lot of people I know partner on a hangar there. They still pay like everywhere else, but with partnerships it's palatable. I heard about deals as low as $150/mo ($75/mo with a friend). It's basically the place in case you really want a hangar and have no money. Probably not the case for an RV builder, I imagine.
