Shepherd Farm Airport
0CA4 · Santa Ynez, California · Santa Barbara County · map
Shepherd Farm Airport is a private airport, 1 mile northeast of Santa Ynez, California, 660 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 06/24, is 3,600 feet of treated.
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 0CA4
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 660 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24 | 3,600 × 50 ft | Treated |
- Runway 24: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Santa Ynez/Kunkle Field (1 nm southwest), Santa Barbara Municipal (16 nm southeast), Lompoc Airport (20 nm west), Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (26 nm northwest).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Santa Ynez/Kunkle Field (1 nm southwest), Santa Barbara Municipal (16 nm southeast), Lompoc Airport (20 nm west), Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (26 nm northwest).
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
- Private use.
- 2 percent downhill slope to west.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Santa Ynez from the FAA register
48 aircraft are registered to owners in Santa Ynez, California: 42 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
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
Fuel and service companies in Santa Ynez, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
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
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Santa Ynez 48 aircraft · 42 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 turboprops
- Sunwest Aviation INC 4 aircraft in town
- Pacific Southwest Industries INC 3 aircraft in town
- Hangar G-1 Aviaiton Partners LLC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,080 since 1982 · 1,097 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 27,727 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/0CA4.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 November 4, 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.