Chico Regional
CIC · KCIC · Chico, California · Butte County · map
Chico Regional is a public-use airport owned by the City of Chico, 4 miles north of Chico, California, 240 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 13L/31R, is 6,724 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 98 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 33,300 takeoffs and landings a year. About 12 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KCIC · observed 3:47 pm PDT (22:47 UTC), 44 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 99°F (37°C), dew point 45°F (7°C)
- Altimeter 29.82 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KCIC 062247Z VRB05KT 10SM CLR 37/07 A2982
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CIC · ICAO KCIC
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Chico
- Elevation
- 240 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1987
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13L/31R | 6,724 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 13R/31L | 3,000 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | |
| H1 | 64 × 64 ft | Concrete, good |
- Runway 13L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 31R: VASI, four boxes on the left
- Runway 13R: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 121.0 | Chico |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Cic and aWOS-3 | 119.675 | Chico |
| Ground | 121.9 | Chico |
| Red Bluff Center (remote transmitter) Low | 132.2 | Chico |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 530-879-3850.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 33,300, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Chico from the FAA register
158 aircraft are registered to owners in Chico, California: 133 piston singles, 6 piston twins, 6 helicopters, 3 turboprops, 2 gyroplanes. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 15 since 1982, 6 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
- For jet/hvy aircraft oper east of field pattern altitude 1500 feet above ground level; for light aircraft oper west and east of field pattern altitude 1000 feet above ground level.
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 13L; runway end identifier lights runway 31R; PAPI runway 13L; VASI runway 31R; high-intensity runway lights runway 13L/31R - the common traffic frequency.
- Birds on and in vicinity of airport.
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.