Rio Linda Airport
L36 · Rio Linda, California · Sacramento County · map
Rio Linda Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile south of Rio Linda, California, 46 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 17/35, is 2,625 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L36
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 46 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: minor repairs; engine: minor repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- November 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 2,625 × 42 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 17: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 60 ft high 915 ft from the end
- Runway 35: trees 20 ft high 384 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Rio Linda from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Rio Linda, California: 14 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute, 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.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- 17/35 non-standard centerline spacing and width.
- Runway 17 /35 non-standard centerline spacing and width.
- Longl and lateral cracking.
- Touch and go landings not authorized.
- Ultralights not authorized.
- For noise abatement runway 17 right turn to hdg 215 degrees aft takeoff to avoid overflight of school.
- Tree lines east, west and north of airport - unlighted.
- The airport is currently closed to night operations.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.