Pebbly Beach Seaplane Base
L11 · Avalon, California · Los Angeles County · map
Pebbly Beach Seaplane Base is a private seaplane base owned by Santa Catalina Island CO, 1 mile south of Avalon, California, 0 feet above sea level. Its one runway, H1, is 44 feet of asphalt. It has 1 water landing area.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The seaplane base facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L11
- Kind
- Seaplane base · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Santa Catalina Island CO
- Elevation
- 0 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, daylight hours
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1963
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL/WAY | 15,000 × 4,000 ft | Water | |
| H1 | 44 × 44 ft | Asphalt |
Radio frequencies
| L11 and aWOS-AV | 119.275 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 310-510-0185.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Repairs
- none at the field, as reported
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: John Wayne/Orange County (30 nm northeast), Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (30 nm north), Jack Northrop Fld/Hawthorne Municipal (35 nm north), Fullerton Municipal (36 nm northeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Zamperini Field (28 nm north), John Wayne/Orange County (30 nm northeast), Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (30 nm north), Compton/Woodley Airport (33 nm north).
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.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Condl, pvt VFR use only, ingress/egress at 170-350 degrees.
- Direction of operations varies with wind and sea.
- 129.0 available.
- 270' bluff above Beach to W-NO defined departure or approach rtes due to movement of boats on ocean.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Avalon from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Avalon, California: 5 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this seaplane base; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this seaplane base alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this seaplane base
Accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base NTSB records · 1 since 1982, 1 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
Connections how this seaplane base links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Avalon 5 aircraft · 5 piston singles
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this seaplane base 1 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,080 since 1982 · 1,098 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/L11.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 30, 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.