Gravelly Valley Airport
1Q5 · Upper Lake, California · Lake County · map
Gravelly Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the US Forest Service, 17 miles north of Upper Lake, California, 1,900 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 4,050 feet of gravel.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 1Q5
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Forest Service
- Elevation
- 1,900 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1944
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 4,050 × 200 ft | Gravel, fair |
- Runway 01: trees 36 ft high 600 ft from the end
- Runway 19: hill 800 ft high 800 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Upper Lake from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Upper Lake, California: 7 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 5 since 1982, 1 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
- E111: predates 1958 FA act.
- No landing on runway 19 due to hill northeast of airport.
- District ranger.
- Upper Lake ranger district, Upper Lake.
- 300' stopway at south end of runway.
- Between parallel dirt roads.
- Threshold marked with white tires.
- Marked with white tires.
- Runway was graded in july 2025.
- No takeoff on runway 01 due to hill northeast of airport.
- Caution: hang glider operations; particularly summer months.
- Caution: do not land south of hull mountain road.
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.