Trona Airport
L72 · Trona, California · Inyo County · map
Trona Airport is a public-use airport owned by the US Dept of Interior Blm, 4 miles north of Trona, California, 1,718 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 5,910 feet of asphalt. It has about 4 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 4,500 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L72
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- US Dept of Interior Blm
- Elevation
- 1,718 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Las Vegas sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1944
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 5,910 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Low-intensity lights |
| H1 | 52 × 52 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 17: fence 7 ft high 346 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 4,500, 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 Trona from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Trona, California: 2 piston singles. 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 · 2 since 1982, 1 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 5/15/59.
- Helipad H1 is located 230 feet west of runway 17/35 and 3,380 feet south of runway 17 thld.
- Activate low-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 (5) clicks on frequency - 122.8.
- Non-standard low-intensity runway lights edge lights 55 feet from edges of runway.
- Taxi and hold line mrkg are barely vsb.
- Taxi and hold line mrkg are barely vsb.
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.