Big Bear City Airport
L35 · Big Bear City, California · San Bernardino County · map
Big Bear City Airport is a public-use airport owned by Big Bear Airport Dist in Big Bear City, California, 6,752 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 5,850 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 61 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 30,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L35
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Big Bear Airport Dist
- Elevation
- 6,752 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,200 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1943
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 5,850 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 370 ft
- Runway 26: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 600 ft, trees 40 ft high 1,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Barstow and center (remote transmitter) Low | 126.35 | |
| L35 and aWOS-3 | 135.925 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 909-585-4033.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 30,000, 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.
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 Big Bear City from the FAA register
25 aircraft are registered to owners in Big Bear City, California: 24 piston singles, 1 glider. 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 · 75 since 1982, 18 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
- Mountains all quadrants; peak hazard lights southeast; south; and northwest.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 08 and 26 oper continuously.
- 100LL available 24 hour self service.
- Jet a fuel available 8:00 am to 4:00 pm local, SELF-SERVICE after hours.
- Road and 6' fence 110' from threshold perpendicular to centerline.
- Road and 6' fence 100' from threshold 125' right.
- Unusable beyond 8 degreess left of runway centerline.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold over +15' road 480' from displaced threshold 32:1
- Runway 26 approach ratio to displaced threshold 20:1; approach ratio to displaced threshold over +50 feet trees 1000 feet from displaced threshold 100 feet left 20:1.
- <extreme noise sensitive area; practice (fly quiet) procedures in the interest of noise abatement.
- Noise abatement procedures; avoid overflying of high school 1 mile east at all times.
- On takeoff make 10 degrees left turn at end of runway to avoid housing to east and elementary school to west 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.