Shelter Cove Airport
0Q5 · Shelter Cove, California · Humboldt County · map
Shelter Cove Airport is a public-use airport owned by Shelter Cove Resort Imp District, 1 mile west of Shelter Cove, California, 73 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,407 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 0Q5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Shelter Cove Resort Imp District
- Elevation
- 73 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Klamath Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1950
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,407 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 12: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 106 ft, tree 10 ft high 400 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 501 ft, tree 60 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Shelter Cove from the FAA register
1 aircraft are registered to owners in Shelter Cove, California: 1 piston single. 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 · 8 since 1982, 5 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
- Approach ratio 22:1 to displaced thld, 37 feet tree 191 feet R 341 feet from eor..
- Student pilot solo flights prohibited.
- No practice low approaches or touch and go landings.
- Be alert for ULTRA-LIGHTS, hangliders and parachuters in the vicinity of airport.
- Golf carts operating on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Expect crosswinds, downdrafts and extdd periods of fog YEAR-ROUND.
- Terrain +40 feet drop off located 500 feet north runway 12 end.
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.