EL Tiro
AZ67 · Tucson, Arizona · Pima County · map
EL Tiro is a private gliderport owned by Tucson Soaring Club, INC., 23 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, 2,100 feet above sea level. It has 5 runways; the longest, 08/26, is 5,120 feet of dirt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA AZ67
- Kind
- Gliderport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Tucson Soaring Club, INC.
- Elevation
- 2,100 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Friday to Saturday to Sunday, 8:30 am to dusk
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Phoenix sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1983
Runways 5
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 5,120 × 100 ft | Dirt | |
| 08L/26R | 5,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt and dirt | |
| 08R/26L | 5,000 × 100 ft | Dirt-trtd | |
| 17L/35R | 5,000 × 100 ft | Dirt-trtd | |
| 17R/35L | 5,000 × 130 ft | Dirt-trtd |
- Runway 08: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 26: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 08L: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 26R: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 08R: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 26L: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 17L: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 35R: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 17R: threshold displaced 500 ft
- Runway 35L: threshold displaced 500 ft
Aircraft registered in Tucson from the FAA register
735 aircraft are registered to owners in Tucson, Arizona: 556 piston singles, 43 piston twins, 27 gliders, 25 business jets, 25 balloons. Not every one of them is based at this gliderport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this gliderport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Arizona.
Accidents and incidents at or near this gliderport NTSB records · 8 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
- Condl: VFR; private use.
- Multicom 123.5 available.
- Center 1300 an X 22' asphalt; superimposed in 5000 an X 100' dirt.
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.