Edwards Air Force Base
EDW · KEDW · Edwards, California · Kern County · map
Edwards Air Force Base is a private airport owned by Usaf, 6 miles southwest of Edwards, California, 2,311 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 05R/23L, is 15,024 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, JP-8).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA EDW · ICAO KEDW
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 2,311 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · operates 1400-0600z++mon-fri, 1400-2200z++ saturday, closed sunday and holidays.
- Attended
- every day, monday to friday
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, JP-8; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05R/23L | 15,024 × 300 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
| 05L/23R | 12,000 × 200 ft | Asphalt | |
| 07/25 | 8,000 × 50 ft | Concrete |
- Runway 05R: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 23L: localizer and glideslope, PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.7 | Edwards · Uhf 318.1 |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 127.425 | Edwards |
| Ground | 121.8 | Edwards |
| Approach and departure | 133.65 | Edwards |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Edwards |
| Nasa and operations | 135.825 | Edwards |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, JP-8
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Mojave Air & Space Port/Rutan Field (16 nm northwest), California City Municipal (16 nm northwest), General WM J Fox Airfield (19 nm southwest).
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
- Uhf 318.1
- Estimated arp calculated based on runway 05L/23R and 05R/23L only.
- Closed wkend, holidays, and afmc family days.
- Operates Monday 1400-FRI 0600Z++. based on msn rqmnts, afld may close after schedule last landing. NOTAM will be issued advertising early afld closures.
- Hook BAK-12(B)(2500')
- Hook BAK-12B(B)(1518')
- Hook BAK-12B(B) (1559')
- 100LL fuel available through prior arngmt with aero club only dsn 527-2376, C661-275-2376.
- Unusable beyond 7 degrees right of runway centerline.
- Unusable beyond 7 degrees right of runway centerline.
- A-GEAR - BAK-12B(B) in raised posn on departure end of act runway. BAK-12B(B) rqr 20 minimum PN for approach end engagement. When afld closed BAK-12B(B) in raised posn departure end runway 23, removed approach end runway 23. 8 PT TIE-DOWNS on all BAK-12B in raised posn.
- Jasu: (A/M32C-10D) (MA-3D) 2(A/M32A-86D) (MC-5 LO-PACK) (sgnsc) (PMU-29E) 2(A/M32A-60A).
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Edwards from the FAA register
38 aircraft are registered to owners in Edwards, California: 21 business jets, 6 drones, 5 turboprops, 2 piston singles, 2 airliners and large jets. 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:
- Edwards Aero Club 4 aircraft · Edwards Afb, 2 miles away
- 95 Msg/Svra Aero Club 1 aircraft · Edwards Afb, 2 miles away
- Edwards Air Force Base Aero Club 1 aircraft · Edwards Afb, 2 miles away
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.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Edwards 38 aircraft · 21 business jets, 6 drones, 5 turboprops
- NASA Neil A Armstrong Flight Research Center 29 aircraft in town
- NASA 2 aircraft in town
- Edwards Aero Club 4 aircraft · flying club
- 95 Msg/Svra Aero Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- Edwards Air Force Base Aero Club 1 aircraft · flying club
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 4 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/EDW.json.
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 27, 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.