Hell'Er High Water Airport
45CL · Zenia, California · Trinity County · map
Hell'Er High Water Airport is a private airport, 6 miles southeast of Zenia, California, 2,493 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 2,600 feet of dirt.
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 45CL
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 2,493 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Klamath Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1962
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 2,600 × 50 ft | Dirt, fair |
- Runway 18: trees 20 ft high 300 ft from the end
- Runway 36: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 80 ft high 1,500 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Garberville Airport (19 nm west), Round Valley Airport (22 nm south), Ells Fld/Willits Municipal (42 nm south), Rohnerville Airport (42 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
- VFR only.
- Written permission required to use airstrip.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Zenia from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Zenia, CA as the owner's town.
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
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 7 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,673 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/45CL.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 October 29, 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.