San Martin Airport
E16 · San Martin, California · Santa Clara County · map
San Martin Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Santa Clara, 1 mile east of San Martin, California, 284 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 14/32, is 3,095 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA E16
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Santa Clara
- Elevation
- 284 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Wednesday to Thursday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- Jet A, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1972
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 3,095 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 14: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 41 ft high 1,100 ft from the end
- Runway 32: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, tree 32 ft high 1,040 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach | 124.525 | |
| Departure | 120.1 | |
| E16 and aWOS-3P | 118.350 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 408-918-7724.
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 San Martin from the FAA register
79 aircraft are registered to owners in San Martin, California: 70 piston singles, 7 piston twins, 2 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:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 11 since 1982, 1 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
- Left traffic pattern runway 14 to avoid flying over school and right traffic pattern runway 32 to avoid flying over school.
- Dusk to dawn.
- No crosswind turns below 1300 feet above sea level; departures climb to 2000 feet above sea level.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 14/32 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 14 and 32 on continuously.
- Eric peterson, director of airports.
- Bgng january 1, 2022 100LL unavailable.
- Apchg aircraft fly downwind legs east of freeway.
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.