Mineta San Jose International

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

• Runway 12L: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 1,307 ft, 8,831 ft available for landing, pole 32 ft high 1,441 ft from the end
• Runway 30R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 2,537 ft, 7,597 ft available for landing, tree 54 ft high 1,435 ft from the end
• Runway 12R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,297 ft, 8,587 ft available for landing, pole 29 ft high 580 ft from the end
• Runway 30L: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), threshold displaced 2,537 ft, 7,614 ft available for landing, fence 14 ft high 230 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 408-969-0838.

Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024

Takeoffs and landings a year about 163,983, 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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.

Aircraft registered in San Jose from the FAA register

372 aircraft are registered to owners in San Jose, California: 293 piston singles, 21 piston twins, 19 gliders, 15 business jets, 7 turboprops. 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.

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Reid-Hillview Of Santa Clara County (5 nm east), Palo Alto Airport (11 nm northwest), San Carlos Airport (18 nm northwest).

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.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in San Jose, by their names on the register:

• Seagull Flying Club INC 2 aircraft Seagull Flying Club is a non-profit flying club based at San Jose Mineta International Airport (KSJC) in California.
• Goldeagle Flyers INC 1 aircraft
• Rhv Flyers INC 1 aircraft
• Sj Flyers LLC 1 aircraft

Charter operators and airlines based in San Jose:

• Gtw Aviation LLC 3 aircraft on the certificate
• Siskiyou Aviation LLC 3 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in San Jose:

• Babbitt Bearing CO. INC Babbitt Bearing Company is an FAA-approved repair station specializing in hard chrome plating, thermal spray coating, precision grinding, and shaft and roll manufacturing and repair.
• Cal-Air Aviation Services INC
• California In Nice, INC Nice Air Aviation is an FAA-certified flight school operating under Part 141 and Part 61 in the San Jose, California area.
• Corporate Aviation Assoc. INC
• Lac Avionics INC LAC Avionics is an FAA-certified repair station based in San Jose, California since 1971, providing avionics service, repair, installation, and testing for aircraft ranging from piston singles to business jets.

Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 30 since 1982, 3 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

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

• Activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 12R, approach lights (MALSR) runway 30L, high-intensity runway lights runway 12L/30R, high-intensity runway lights runway 12R/30L - frequency 124.0 when tower closed.
• Pattern altitude 942 feet above ground level SINGLE-ENGINE aircraft, 1442 feet above ground level MULTI-ENGINE and turbine powered aircraft.
• Runway 30L PAPI unusable beyond 7 degreess of centerline of runway.
• Approach ratio 50:1 to displaced threshold.
• Approach ratio 50:1 to displaced threshold.
• Birds frequently on or in vicinity of airport.
• Taxiway Y will be periodically rstrd to aircraft with a wingspan of less than 171 feet (MD-11 or smaller) drg B-787 and B-747 operations on runway 12L/30R.
• Taxiway Z will be periodically rstrd to aircraft with a wingspan of less than 118 feet (B-737-900 or smaller) drg B-787 and B-747 operations. Taxiway Z between 200 feet northwest of taxiway H and 200 feet northwest of taxiway K ltd to aircraft with wingspan of less than 135 feet (B-757-300 or smaller).
• Taxiway V ltd to aircraft with wingspan of less than 118 feet (B-737-900 or smaller).
• Noise abatement procedure: runway 30L/12R is preferred arrival runway for jet aircraft and runway 12L/30R is the preferred departure runway for jet aircraft. All jet aircraft takeoffs are to be initiated from eor unless directed otherwise by the control tower.
• Curfew hours 11:00 pm to 7:00 am far 36 stage II, 11:30 pm to 6:30 am far 36 stage iii aircraft listed on the schedule of authorized aircraft issued by the director of aviation. Delayed scheduled flights, and alternate/emergency operations may be exempt from curfew hour restrictions.
• First 400 feet runway 30R and runway 30L closed for takeoff DC10, MD11, L1011.