Ocotillo Airport
L90 · Ocotillo Wells, California · San Diego County · map
Ocotillo Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of San Diego in Ocotillo Wells, California, 160 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13/31, is 4,210 feet of dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L90
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of San Diego
- Elevation
- 160 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
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1948
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 4,210 × 150 ft | Dirt, good | |
| 09/27 | 2,330 × 150 ft | Dirt, good |
- Runway 13: hill 60 ft high 2,000 ft from the end
- Runway 31: right-hand traffic pattern, road 19 ft high 420 ft from the end
- Runway 09: right-hand traffic pattern, hill 50 ft high 800 ft from the end
- Runway 27: hill 77 ft high 3,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Yuma and center (remote transmitter) High | 118.0 | · Use: clearance delivery/P. |
| El Centro Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 132.275 |
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Aircraft registered in Ocotillo Wells from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Ocotillo Wells, CA as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 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
- Field unusable when wet.
- Amgrs office at borrego valley airport.
- North 300 feet soft
- Obstruction to far part 77, hills surround airport.
- Runway 09/27 and runway 13/31 thlds marked by white paving blocks.
- Ctn for occasional unauthorized off road vehicles on and in vicinity of runways and taxiways.
- All runway intersections marked by white paving blocks.
- Be alert for high spd military tilt rotor and ultralight operations on and in vicinity of airport.
- All runways closed sunset to sunrise, not lighted.
- All rdo equipped aircraft must SELF-ANNOUNCE on the common traffic frequency prior to landing or departure.
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.