Bear Valley Airport
73CA · Bear Valley, California · Alpine County · map
Bear Valley Airport is a private airport owned by Tbi Land & Cattle CO., 1 mile southeast of Bear Valley, California, 7,073 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 3,200 feet of dirt-trtd.
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 73CA
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Tbi Land & Cattle CO.
- Elevation
- 7,073 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1967
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,200 × 50 ft | Dirt-trtd |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Lake Tahoe Airport (26 nm north), Columbia Airport (31 nm southwest), Minden-Tahoe Airport (35 nm north), Westover Field Amador County (36 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lake Tahoe Airport (26 nm north), Columbia Airport (31 nm southwest), Calaveras County/Maury Rasmussen Field (34 nm southwest), Minden-Tahoe Airport (35 nm north).
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
- Submitted for records.
- Trees and poles on sides of runway.
- Summer use only.
- Cattle may be on runway.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Bear Valley from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Bear Valley, 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 6 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/73CA.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.