Vanderford Ranch Company Airport
CA73 · Yuba City, California · Sutter County · map
Vanderford Ranch Company Airport is a private airport owned by Siller Helicopters, INC., 6 miles southwest of Yuba City, California, 42 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,220 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).
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 CA73
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Siller Helicopters, INC.
- Elevation
- 42 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- 100 octane avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,220 × 48 ft | Asphalt | Low-intensity lights |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Yuba County (7 nm east), Lincoln Rgnl/Karl Harder Field (20 nm southeast), Oroville Municipal (24 nm north), Sacramento International (25 nm south).
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
- FAA form 7480-1 submitted for records.
- Lights temporary out of service.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Yuba City from the FAA register
76 aircraft are registered to owners in Yuba City, California: 56 piston singles, 9 turboprops, 5 piston twins, 4 helicopters, 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
Repair stations in Yuba City:
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 · 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 Yuba City 76 aircraft · 56 piston singles, 9 turboprops, 5 piston twins
- Twin Cities Aviation INC 7 aircraft in town
- Stadel Aircraft INC 4 aircraft in town
- Corsair Aviation LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Baked Industries INC 2 aircraft in town
- Siller Helicopters LLC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,080 since 1982 · 1,096 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 28,134 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CA73.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 November 10, 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.