Byron Airport
C83 · Byron, California · Contra Costa County · map
Byron Airport is a public-use airport owned by Contra Costa County, 2 miles south of Byron, California, 78 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 4,500 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 84 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 83,075 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA C83
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Contra Costa County
- Elevation
- 78 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 2:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1994
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 4,500 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 05/23 | 3,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: pole 61 ft high 1,591 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, hill 65 ft high 3,218 ft from the end
- Runway 05: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 23: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.05 | |
| Approach and departure | 123.85 | |
| C83 and aWOS-3 | 123.775 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 925-634-0906.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 83,075, 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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Byron from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Byron, California: 5 piston singles, 4 gliders. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 19 since 1982, 2 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
- Ultralight and sailplane activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Pcl available sunset to sunrise. Activate runway end identifier lights runway 30; medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 and 05/23 - the common traffic frequency.
- Director of airports Contra Costa county.
- Fuel available 24 hours by credit card.
- Wind turbines
- Rising terrain with numerous windmills on ridges west of airport.
- Hangar apron and tiedown apron 12500 pounds maximum.
- Runway 30 calm wind runway.
- 200' tower 5600 feet from runway 05.
- 100' tower 5100 feet from runway 23.
- Power plant 2.7 miles southeast of airport producing thermal plumes; avoid overlfight below 1,500 feet above ground level.
- Frequency drone (UAS) drone act 7.8 NM diam around field up to 8000 feet.
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.