Albuquerque AFSS (ABQ), New Mexico.
The original Albuquerque Flight Service Station (FSS) was commissioned April 1, 1931. 
The current Automated FSS (AFSS) opened on June 28, 1991. Since that time it has 
consolidated and assumed the duties of the Flight Service Stations located in El Paso, TX 
(decommissioned August 31, 1993), Gallup and Las Vegas, NM, (decommissioned 
November 25, 1994), Deming, Tucumcari, and Truth or Consequences, NM 
(decommissioned March 31, 1995), and Carlsbad and Roswell, NM (decommissioned 
June 30, 1995).

The ABQ AFSS is responsible for providing services to the entire state of New Mexico 
as well as the Texas counties of El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culbertson. The Albuquerque 
Flight Watch area coincides with Albuquerque Center (ARTCC) boundaries and includes 
parts of Arizona, all of New Mexico and parts of West Texas.

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