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 facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
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
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- 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
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Ukiah Municipal (28 nm northeast), Charles M Schulz/Sonoma County (31 nm east), Petaluma Municipal (47 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Cloverdale Municipal (21 nm east), Healdsburg Municipal (25 nm east), Ukiah Municipal (28 nm northeast), Lampson Field (30 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
- 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.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. 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 The Sea Ranch 2 aircraft · 2 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 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 27,673 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CA51.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 29, 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.