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San Ardo Field

CA88 · San Ardo, California · Monterey County · map

San Ardo Field is a private airport, 1 mile northwest of San Ardo, California, 441 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 2,000 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 CA88
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
441 feet above sea level
Pattern altitude
800 feet above the airport
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
15E
In the FAA's files since
September 1946

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1432N500 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
14/322,000 × 45 ftAsphalt, fair
  • Runway 14: power line 25 ft high 720 ft from the end
  • Runway 32: trees 75 ft high 435 ft from the end

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Fuel
none reported
Repairs
none at the field, as reported

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Paso Robles Municipal (25 nm southeast), San Luis Obispo County Regional (49 nm south).

Nearest fields reporting avgas: Mesa Del Rey Airport (16 nm northwest), Paso Robles Municipal (25 nm southeast), Harris Ranch Airport (35 nm northeast), San Luis Obispo County Regional (49 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

  • Estabd prior to 5/15/59.
  • Part 77 violation: trees southwest of runway 14/32 house 50 feet left of centerline runway 32 and farm equip parked 50 feet right of runway 14 centerline; penetrate 7:1 slope; 6 inch irrigation pipe 30 feet from runway centerline and 350 feet from end of runway 32 is within primary surface.
  • Pattern altitude 1241' above sea level.
  • Dirt farm road at approach eor; +6 inch irrigation pipe 20 feet from eor 125 feet left to 125 feet right.
  • Paved road at approach end of runway.
  • Weeds growing through runway surface.

Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby

Aircraft registered in San Ardo from the FAA register

1 aircraft are registered to owners in San Ardo, California: 1 piston single. 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

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register

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Around it

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/CA88.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 2, 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.