Stovepipe Wells Airport
L09 · Death Valley National Park, California · Inyo County · map
Stovepipe Wells Airport is a public-use airport owned by the US Dept of Interior/Park Svc, 1 mile west of Death Valley National Park, California, 25 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 05/23, is 3,260 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L09
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Dept of Interior/Park Svc
- Elevation
- 25 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1948
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05/23 | 3,260 × 65 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 23: right-hand traffic pattern, road 10 ft high 420 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Death Valley National Park from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Death Valley National Park, CA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Aircraft need to be parked at least 75 feet from runway centerline to rmn out of runway safety area.
- +4' dike 180' from threshold; +5' brush 0' from threshold 40' R.
- 05/23 centerline is short dashes.
- Pavement is in poor, but stbl condition.
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.