Kern Valley Airport
L05 · Kernville, California · Kern County · map
Kern Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Kern Dept of Airports, 3 miles south of Kernville, California, 2,614 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 3,500 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L05
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Kern Dept of Airports
- Elevation
- 2,614 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1949
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 3,500 × 50 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 36 ft high 920 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Kernville from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Kernville, California: 3 piston singles. 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, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 18 since 1982, 2 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
- <no night operations.
- Director, Kern county airports
- Owned by U.S. forest service on lease to Kern county.
- Gtr than 1 feet rocks 0-90 feet from eor 50 feet left to 80 feet right prvdg washout protection from lake.
- FLY-IN campground on airport.
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.