Wasco-Kern County
L19 · Wasco, California · Kern County · map
Wasco-Kern County is a public-use airport owned by Kern County Dept of Airports, 2 miles northwest of Wasco, California, 312 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 3,380 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 12 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 10,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L19
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Kern County Dept of Airports
- Elevation
- 312 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- 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
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 3,380 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: threshold displaced 431 ft, pole 35 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 30: threshold displaced 230 ft, road 15 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | · Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency. |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 10,000, 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.
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Aircraft registered in Wasco from the FAA register
13 aircraft are registered to owners in Wasco, California: 10 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 1 helicopter. 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 · 3 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
- Estabd prior to 5/1/59.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude 1113 above sea level.
- Director, Kern County airports
- Runway 12 lighted thld relctd 455 feet; runway 30 lighted thld relctd 240 feet for night operations; 2685 feet of runway 12/30 usable at night.
- +6' fence and +15' road 0' to 70' from runway end 80' L to 70' R.
- +4' fence 85' to 180' from runway end 125' L to 125' R; +15' road 105' to 200' from runway end 125' L to 125' R; +8' sign 200' from runway end 0' L.
- +35 feet poles right to left 600 feet from displaced thld. Runway 12 approach ratio 18:1 to displaced thld.
- Runway 30 approach ratio 26:1 to displaced thld.
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.