San Rafael Airport
CA35 · San Rafael, California · Marin County · map
San Rafael Airport is a private airport owned by San Rafael Airport, LLC, 3 miles north of San Rafael, California, 5 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 2,700 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
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 CA35
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- San Rafael Airport, LLC
- Elevation
- 5 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,700 × 30 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
- Runway 04: hill 300 ft high 4,500 ft from the end
- Runway 22: right-hand traffic pattern, pole 40 ft high 1,150 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.7 |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Notes
- landing fee charged
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Gnoss Field (8 nm north), Petaluma Municipal (15 nm north), Napa County (16 nm northeast).
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
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- FAA approved standard fixtures and threshold lights; each side threshold.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in San Rafael from the FAA register
53 aircraft are registered to owners in San Rafael, California: 40 piston singles, 5 business jets, 4 turboprops, 2 piston twins, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Air Share Aviators Flight Club LLC 1 aircraft · Fairfax, 4 miles away
- Gnoss Field Flying Club 1 aircraft · Fairfax, 4 miles away
- Western Territory Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Fairfax, 4 miles away
- Alameda Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Richmond, 10 miles away Alameda Flying Club is a non-profit flying club based at Hayward Executive Airport in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 10 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in San Rafael 53 aircraft · 40 piston singles, 5 business jets, 4 turboprops
- Ace Maker Aviation LLC 6 aircraft in town
- Air Share Aviators Flight Club LLC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Gnoss Field Flying Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Western Territory Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 10 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CA35.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 30, 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.