Half Moon Bay Airport
HAF · KHAF · Half Moon Bay, California · San Mateo County · map
Half Moon Bay Airport is a public-use airport owned by San Mateo County, 5 miles northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, 66 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 5,000 feet of asphalt and concrete. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 36 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The FAA counts about 52,414 takeoffs and landings a year. About 5 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
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What is the airport code for Half Moon Bay Airport?
Its FAA code is HAF, and its ICAO code is KHAF.
Where is Half Moon Bay Airport?
It is 5 miles northwest of Half Moon Bay, California, 66 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Half Moon Bay Airport?
Its one runway, 12/30, is 5,000 feet long, asphalt and concrete.
Does Half Moon Bay Airport have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Half Moon Bay Airport?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas.
Where can you fly nonstop from Half Moon Bay Airport?
Airline flights go to 1 airport, the busiest of them Van Nuys. Every route
Are there flight schools at Half Moon Bay Airport?
7 flight schools, flying clubs or college flight programmes are based within about 15 miles of it, including Pacer Flying Club INC and Eagles Flying Club INC. Compare them
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Half Moon Bay Airport?
9 pilot examiners and 23 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Half Moon Bay Airport…
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HAF · ICAO KHAF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- San Mateo County
- Elevation
- 66 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 933 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 5,000 × 150 ft | Asphalt and concrete, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 752 ft, trees 70 ft high 1,390 ft from the end
- Runway 30: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 762 ft, trees 70 ft high 2,478 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Approach and departure | 135.1 | |
| Haf and aWOS-3 | 127.275 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 650-728-5649.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: San Francisco International (9 nm northeast), San Carlos Airport (12 nm east), Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (18 nm northeast), Palo Alto Airport (19 nm east).
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
- Field CONDS-RWY, taxiway and apron good.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30, runway end identifier lights runway 30, PAPI runways 12 and 30 - 122.8.
- Director of public works: tory a. Newman
- Fuel available 24 hours self service.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 50:1.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 50:1.
- Airport noise sensitive areas northwest through northeast.
- Taxiways, aprons and tie-downs: 12,500 pounds maximum.
- Unexpected turbulent conditions may be enctrd while on fna to runway 12.
- Avoid flying directly over the pillar point air force station.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
Activity now checking the volunteer receiver network…
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 1 departures from HAF in those twelve months, carrying 1 passengers in 8 seats (12% filled), to 1 destination on 1 airline.
| Where to | Flights | Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half Moon Bay → Van Nuys HAF–VNY | 1 | 1 | Scott Aviation, LLC ... |
All 1 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 30 |
| multi-engine | 5 |
| jets | 1 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 52,414, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 150 |
| general aviation, travelling | 26,132 |
| general aviation, local | 26,132 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Half Moon Bay from the FAA register
26 aircraft are registered to owners in Half Moon Bay, California: 16 piston singles, 7 balloons, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
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:
- Pacer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · Millbrae, 8 miles away
- Eagles Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · San Francisco, 10 miles away
- United Flying Club INC 2 aircraft · Belmont, 11 miles away United Flying Club is a nonprofit mutual benefit cooperative flying club established in 1947 and based at San Carlos Airport near San Francisco.
- Mh Aviation LLC 7 aircraft · Foster City, 14 miles away MH Aviation is a flight school and FAA Part 145 repair station at Fox Field (KWJF) in Lancaster, California.
- Pelican Flight Training LLC 3 aircraft · San Carlos, 14 miles away
- San Carlos Flight Center INC 2 aircraft · San Carlos, 14 miles away San Carlos Flight Center is a flight school and flying club based at San Carlos Airport in California.
- Hydro Flyers LLC 2 aircraft · Woodside, 15 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.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
9 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 9 for private pilot, 7 for commercial and instrument, 3 for flight instructor, 3 for sport pilot; 8 for airplanes, 3 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for seaplanes, 1 for helicopters. Also nearby: 1 sport aviation examiner, 23 aviation medical examiners, 3 mechanic examiners, 2 airworthiness representatives (maintenance), 1 airworthiness representative (manufacturing), 2 engineering representatives, 1 aircraft dispatcher examiner, 2 administrative pilot examiners.
- Michael Healey private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, seaplanes · WP 27 Oakland FSDO · Foster City, CA (11 nm) · (650) 430-2730 · [email protected]
- James Courtney Higgins private pilot, commercial and instrument, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes · San Carlos, CA (12 nm) · (530) 307-9776 · [email protected]
- R Rohlfing private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · West Valley Flying Club - SQL · San Carlos, CA (12 nm) · (408) 234-8423 · [email protected]
- Terence Wilson private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instructor renewals; airplanes · Sundance Air Services · Alameda, CA (18 nm) · (925) 223-7145 · [email protected]
- Evan Paraskevopoulos private pilot, commercial pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; helicopters · Hayward, CA (20 nm) · (408) 887-0903 · [email protected]
- Mark Pollard private pilot; airplanes · Walnut Creek, CA (32 nm) · (925) 595-1980 · [email protected]
- Clayton Miles Conrad private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Jose, CA (34 nm) · (140) 866-6696 · [email protected]
- Jennifer Rayne Watson private pilot, commercial and instrument, sport pilot, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · AeroDynamic Aviation · San Jose, CA (34 nm) · (916) 399-3669 · [email protected]
All 44 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DADE: Designated Aircraft Dispatcher Examiner: tests candidates for the dispatcher certificate.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 16 since 1982, 6 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 Half Moon Bay 26 aircraft · 16 piston singles, 7 balloons, 2 piston twins
- Pacer Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- Eagles Flying Club INC 1 aircraft · flying club
- United Flying Club INC 2 aircraft · flying club
- Van Nuys (VNY) 1 flights in twelve months · Scott Aviation, LLC d/b/a Silver Air
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 16 since 1982 · 6 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 27,642 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/HAF.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 26, 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.