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Newton Field

12CL · Stratford, California · Kings County · map

Newton Field is a private airport, 3 miles southwest of Stratford, California, 194 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,790 feet of asphalt.

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes: FAA 12CL
Kind: Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation: 194 feet above sea level
Control tower: No control tower
Attended: Monday to Friday, daylight hours
Lights: runway lights see the remarks below
Repairs: airframe: none; engine: none
On the chart: San Francisco sectional
Magnetic variation: 15E
In the FAA's files since: December 1945

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lights
14/32	2,790 × 40 ft	Asphalt, good	Medium-intensity lights

Runway 14: threshold displaced 130 ft

Aircraft registered in Stratford from the FAA register

9 aircraft are registered to owners in Stratford, California: 6 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 piston twin. 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

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

Hanford Municipal HJO · 14 nm northeast Harris Ranch Airport 3O8 · 20 nm west New Coalinga Municipal C80 · 22 nm west Visalia Municipal VIS · 24 nm northeast Mefford Field TLR · 25 nm east Selma Airport 0Q4 · 27 nm north Machado Dusters Airport CA05 · 2 nm east · private Westlake Farms Airport 92CA · 3 nm southwest · private

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

Non compliance far 157.
<keep below 1000' in vicinity of airport.
Heavy military traffic in vicinity.

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.