Happy Camp Airport
36S · Happy Camp, California · Siskiyou County · map
Happy Camp Airport is a public-use airport owned by the U.S. Forest Service in Happy Camp, California, 1,209 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 3,000 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 36S
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- U.S. Forest Service
- Elevation
- 1,209 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
- 18E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1951
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 3,000 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 04: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 25 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 22: brush 10 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Happy Camp from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Happy Camp, California: 2 piston singles. 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 · 4 since 1982, 2 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
- Public use; VFR condition.
- Runway 22 has +35' trees 600' from thld 125' either side of centerline.
- U.S. forest service mans heliport may through sep.
- Operd/maintd by Siskiyou county.
- Runway 04 has 3 feet fence O feet from runway end and 80 feet L.
- Runway 22 has 8 feet shrub 0 feet from runway end and 115 feet right.
- Runway 04 approach slope 12:1 due to 25 feet tree 500 feet from thld.
- Runway 22 approach slope 0:0 due to 10 feet shrubs 200 feet from thld.
- Runway 04 tree and shrub covered rising terrain.
- Runway 22 tree and shrub covered rising terrain.
- (E94) U.S. forest service.
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.