French Valley Airport
F70 · Murrieta/Temecula, California · Riverside County · map
French Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Riverside, 2 miles northeast of Murrieta/Temecula, California, 1,350 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 6,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 257 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 89,790 takeoffs and landings a year. About 139 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA F70
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Riverside
- Elevation
- 1,350 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 6:00 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
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1989
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 6,000 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 18: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 5 ft high 425 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 133.5 | |
| Approach and departure | 134.0 | |
| F70 and aWOS-3 | 119.025 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 951-696-1018.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 89,790, 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 Murrieta/Temecula from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Murrieta/Temecula, CA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 35 since 1982, 5 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
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 18 and 36; PAPI runway 18 and 36; medium-intensity runway lights runway 18/36; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency.
- Self service 100LL fuel available.
- All departures - noise sensitive areas in vicinity of airport. Best roc recommended to traffic pattern altitude bfr departing the pattern. Calm wind runway 18.
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.