Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport
L62 · Buttonwillow, California · Kern County · map
Elk Hills-Buttonwillow Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Kern Dept of Airports, 3 miles south of Buttonwillow, California, 326 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 3,260 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L62
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Kern Dept of Airports
- Elevation
- 326 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 3,260 × 50 ft | Asphalt, poor |
- Runway 11: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Buttonwillow from the FAA register
17 aircraft are registered to owners in Buttonwillow, California: 8 helicopters, 6 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 drone. 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 · 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
- Airport closed to night operations.
- Director, Kern county airports
- Alligator cracking; pavement stbl.
- Elk HILLS-BUTTONWILLOW elev 326 painted on center of runway.
- Radio controlled model aircraft below 800 feet above ground level in the vicinity 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.