The Sea Ranch Airport
CA51 · The Sea Ranch, California · Sonoma County · map
The Sea Ranch Airport is a private airport owned by The Sea Ranch Association, 3 miles north of The Sea Ranch, California, 360 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 2,600 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CA51
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- The Sea Ranch Association
- Elevation
- 360 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 2,600 × 40 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 12: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 30: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 300 ft
Aircraft registered in The Sea Ranch from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in The Sea Ranch, California: 2 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- 200-FOOT overrun each end runway 12/30.
- +TV tower 1.5 miles and 300' left of cntrl runway 30 approach end lighted: 1015' above sea level.
- Aircraft with a crtfd maximum takeoff WT gtr than 8500 pounds are prohibited.
- All aircraft W/ACCELERATE-STOP distance excess of 2300 feet, prohibited from using airport.
- Runways 12/30 left turn after takeoff.
- Only operations in vmc are pmtd to/from the airport. Pilots departing IFR must mntn vmc for takeoff and provide their own trrn and obstruction clnc as defined by the FAA.
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.