Ranchaero Airport

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

• Runway 14: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 300 ft, trees 10 ft high 200 ft from the end
• Runway 32: threshold displaced 200 ft, trees 20 ft high 230 ft from the end

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Chico Regional (5 nm north), Oroville Municipal (18 nm southeast), Red Bluff Municipal (31 nm northwest), Yuba County (40 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 1959.
• Airport surrounded by +20 feet orchard trees.
• Traffic pattern indicators only.
• Gross weight strength estimated provided by amgr 12000 pounds.
• Runway 14 +15 feet road 100 feet from; +35 feet trees 135 feet from; +10 feet trees 160 feet from runway end.
• Runway 32 orchard with +20 feet trees left and right 34 feet from runway end.
• Runway 14 approach ratio 13:1 to displaced thld over +40 feet trees 535 feet from displaced thld 120 feet L.
• Runway 32 approach ratio 21:1 to displaced threshold over +20 feet trees, 230 feet from eor, both sides of centerline
• Small cracks in pavement surface.
• Ultralights prohibited.
• Agriculture aircraft operns prohibited.
• Tgl prohibited.

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, 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

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

• Air Carriage INC 4 aircraft · Chico, 5 miles away Air Carriage Inc, operating as Chico Flight Services, is a flight school based in Chico, California that provides pilot training from private pilot through airline transport pilot and certified flight instructor ratings.
• Butte Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Chico, 5 miles away

Charter operators and airlines based in Chico:

• Enloe Medical Center 2 aircraft on the certificate
• Air Carriage, Inc 1 aircraft on the certificate Air Carriage, Inc operates a flight school, aircraft rental service, and aircraft management business in Chico, California.

Repair stations in Chico:

• Air Spray USA INC Air Spray is an aerial firefighting operator based in Canada and the United States that provides wildfire suppression services using fixed-wing airtankers, amphibious scoopers, and air-attack aircraft across North and South America.
• Selken Enterprises INC

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.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles