Nellis Air Force Base (LSV) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20261 (0 fatal)
20253 (0 fatal)
20241 (0 fatal)
20222 (0 fatal)
20213 (1 fatal)
20202 (1 fatal)
20192 (2 fatal)
20181 (0 fatal)
20172 (0 fatal)
20163 (0 fatal)
20154 (0 fatal)
20144 (0 fatal)
20135 (0 fatal)
20122 (0 fatal)
20113 (1 fatal)
20104 (1 fatal)
20091 (0 fatal)
20082 (0 fatal)
19831 (1 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown19
Landing8
Approach5
Maneuvering5
Climb3
Cruise2
Takeoff2
On the ground2

Notable investigated occurrences

2011-12-08 — Eurocopter AS350-B2, SUNDANCE HELICOPTERS INC (5 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2020-10-29 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2019-10-23 — Airwork Las Vegas (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2019-09-08 — Beechcraft C-24R, California Flight Academy (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2010-09-06 (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2021-05-24 — Dassault Aviation Mirage F-1 Turbo-jet, DRAKEN INTERNATIONAL LLC (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
2025-09-30 — Spirit Airlines LLC — 0.0 km
2025-07-02 — UNITED AIRLINES INC — 0.0 km
2024-10-05 — Frontier Airlines — 0.0 km
2022-04-21 — Jeffery Price — 0.0 km
2022-02-04 — Sun Country Airlines, Inc. — 0.0 km
2021-06-25 — ACC Integrated Services Inc — 0.0 km

Runways

03L/21R: 10,120 ft, CON, lighted
03R/21L: 10,051 ft, CON, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 2.307 days/year
Thunderstorms: 13.539 days/year
Snow: 0.201 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 3.776% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.19% of observations

Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.