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
- 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
- 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 |
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, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
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.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- 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.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 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 5, 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.