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Kelso Valley Airport

CN37 · Mojave, California · Kern County · map

Kelso Valley Airport is a private airport, 20 miles northwest of Mojave, California, 4,074 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 3,436 feet of dirt. It has fuel (100 octane avgas).

Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.

The airport

Codes
FAA CN37
Kind
Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
Elevation
4,074 feet above sea level
Control tower
No control tower
Attended
every day, 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
Lights
runway lights see the remarks below
Fuel
100 octane avgas
Repairs
airframe: none; engine: none
Notes
landing fee
On the chart
Los Angeles sectional
Magnetic variation
14E
In the FAA's files since
April 1967

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

16340826N1,000 ft
Runways drawn to scale from the FAA's positions, north up.

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
16/343,436 × 100 ftDirtNon-standard lights
08/262,673 × 100 ftDirtNon-standard lights
  • Runway 26: right-hand traffic pattern

Aircraft registered in Mojave from the FAA register

108 aircraft are registered to owners in Mojave, California: 58 piston singles, 24 business jets, 8 helicopters, 7 piston twins, 4 gliders. 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:

National Test Pilot School 35Scaled Composites LLC 13Elliott Frank F 4Bae Systems Technology Solutions & Services INC 3Orbital Sciences LLC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records

No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file

  • Private use.
  • 900 feet above ground level rising terrain 1,000 feet west of airport.
  • Activate non-standard solar portable low-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - 122.9.
  • Runway 08 marked with X'S. no landings, takeoffs only.

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.