Healdsburg Municipal
HES · KHES · Healdsburg, California · Sonoma County · map
Healdsburg Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Healdsburg, 3 miles northwest of Healdsburg, California, 280 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 2,652 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 26 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 20,400 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HES · ICAO KHES
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Healdsburg
- Elevation
- 280 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1945
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 2,652 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 15 ft high 340 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left, hill 53 ft high 2,040 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Automated UNICOM. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 20,400, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Healdsburg from the FAA register
42 aircraft are registered to owners in Healdsburg, California: 37 piston singles, 1 turboprop, 1 piston twin, 1 helicopter, 1 glider. 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 · 2 since 1982, 0 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
- Estabd prior to 15 may 1959.
- No touch and go. Practice landings ltd to 3 operations/day.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency.
- Automated UNICOM.
- Runway 31 downdrafts approach end.
- Local airport adzy (not FAA aprvd) weather is available on the common traffic frequency. Three clicks WI 3 secs gives weather information.
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.