Gray Butte Field
04CA · Palmdale, California · Los Angeles County · map
Gray Butte Field is a private airport owned by Sorrento West Properties, INC, 25 miles east of Palmdale, California, 3,039 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 8,047 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 04CA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Sorrento West Properties, INC
- Elevation
- 3,039 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,500 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 2002
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 8,047 × 150 ft | Asphalt |
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 321 ft
- Runway 26: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.975 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Southern California Logistics Airport (14 nm east), Apple Valley Airport (24 nm east), Cable Airport (27 nm south), Brackett Field (29 nm south).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Southern California Logistics Airport (14 nm east), Hesperia Airport (21 nm southeast), Apple Valley Airport (24 nm east), Cable Airport (27 nm south).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in California · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Provided private use; VFR operations; obstruction free approach and departure surfaces; and install lighting if operations are conducted between sunset and sunrise.
- Cons large 12500 LB plus mtow remotely piloted aircraft systems (rpas)/UNMANNED aircraft systems (drone (UAS)) operations in class G and east asp surface to 13000 feet above sea level in the vicinity of 04CA Gray Butte field and/or transit to/from R-2515. Check NOTAMs, drone (UAS) operg areas (uoa) and contact joshua approach for status of rpas/drone (UAS) traffic.
- Gxa automated weather (ASOS) is associated with Gray Butte field.
- Aircraft transiting 04CA rmn well clear avoiding the flow of FIXED-WING traffic pattern. Rpas/drone (UAS) pattern altitude is 1500 feet above ground level.
- Bird and animal strike haz in area, vicinity all runways, taxiways, and ramps.
- Runway const cmpltd 6/26/2025. Full length runway asphalt rplcmt. Runway striped as pir.
- Asphalt rplcmt cmpltd 6/26/2025 west taxiway only: TX-A-1, AHOLD-3, and TX-A-1N.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Palmdale from the FAA register
47 aircraft are registered to owners in Palmdale, California: 37 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 3 gliders, 2 balloons, 1 electric aircraft. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Antelope Valley Soaring Club 7 aircraft · Llano, 7 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Palmdale 47 aircraft · 37 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 3 gliders
- Antelope Valley Soaring Club 7 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/04CA.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 30, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.
