Julian Hinds Pump Plant Airstrip Airport
73CL · Desert Center, California · Riverside County · map
Julian Hinds Pump Plant Airstrip Airport is a private airport, 12 miles west of Desert Center, California, 1,335 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 2,000 feet of asphalt.
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 73CL
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 1,335 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1976
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,000 × 30 ft | Asphalt |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
The FAA's record lists no fuel or services for this airport.
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Jacqueline Cochran Regional (26 nm west), Bermuda Dunes Airport (32 nm west), Brawley Municipal (43 nm south), Palm Springs International (44 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Jacqueline Cochran Regional (26 nm west), Twentynine Palms Airport (30 nm northwest), Bermuda Dunes Airport (32 nm west), Brawley Municipal (43 nm south).
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
- Pvt use during VFR conditions only.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Desert Center from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Desert Center, 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 27,655 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/73CL.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 28, 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.