Chemehuevi Valley Airport
49X · Chemehuevi Valley, California · San Bernardino County · map
Chemehuevi Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, 4 miles north of Chemehuevi Valley, California, 638 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 5,000 feet of asphalt. The FAA counts about 2,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA 49X
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Chemehuevi Indian Tribe
- Elevation
- 638 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Phoenix sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1990
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 5,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
No based-aircraft count is published for this airport.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Chemehuevi Valley from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Chemehuevi Valley, CA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 5 since 1982, 0 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
- VFR use only.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
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.