Borrego Valley Airport
L08 · Borrego Springs, California · San Diego County · map
Borrego Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of San Diego, 3 miles east of Borrego Springs, California, 522 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 5,011 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 15 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 21,225 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L08
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of San Diego
- Elevation
- 522 feet above sea level
- 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
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 5,011 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Staffed 8:00 am to 4:00 pm |
| L08 and aWOS-3P | 126.575 | |
| Laguna and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.6 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 760-767-3308.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 21,225, 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 Borrego Springs from the FAA register
19 aircraft are registered to owners in Borrego Springs, California: 13 piston singles, 6 piston twins. 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 · 12 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
- 140 feet tower 1600 feet north of runway 08.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency (5 clicks on).
- Staffed 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
- Self service 24 hour.
- Runway 08/26 400 feet blast pad beyond each end of runway area.
- Unusable beyond 3.0 NM due to trrn.
- During hot weather hvy aircraft parking rstrd to concrete pads on outer transient ramp.
- Aerobatic box north side of airport during daylight hours from surface to 5000 feet above sea level, CK NOTAMs for act.
- Noise sensitive area W-NW. do not overfly elementary school 1 NM west of airport.
- Be aware of frq chgs in wind dir, strong up/DN drafts and turb poss durg high wind conditions.
- All aircraft traffic patterns to south.
- Coyotes and migratory birds ocnlly on or in vacinity of 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.