Mountain Valley Airport
L94 · Tehachapi, California · Kern County · map
Mountain Valley Airport is a public-use airport, 2 miles southeast of Tehachapi, California, 4,220 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 09L/27R, is 4,890 feet of asphalt and dirt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L94
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Elevation
- 4,220 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, dawn to dusk
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- February 1968
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09L/27R | 4,890 × 36 ft | Asphalt and dirt, fair | |
| 09R/27L | 4,890 × 36 ft | Asphalt and dirt, fair |
- Runway 09L: road 37 ft high 1,240 ft from the end
- Runway 27R: right-hand traffic pattern, berm 18 ft high 510 ft from the end
- Runway 09R: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 79 ft high 2,140 ft from the end
- Runway 27L: berm 18 ft high 560 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 |
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Aircraft registered in Tehachapi from the FAA register
165 aircraft are registered to owners in Tehachapi, California: 117 piston singles, 43 gliders, 2 piston twins, 2 business jets, 1 turboprop. 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 · 11 since 1982, 3 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
- <gliders approach from north, use runway 9L/27R; pwr aircraft approach from south, use runway 9R/27L.
- Restricted to sailplane use.
- Runway end 09L first 1,200 feet an X 36 feet dirt; runway end 27R remaining 3,690 feet asphalt of varying widths.
- Runway end 09R first 1,200 feet an X 36 feet dirt; runway end 27L remaining 3,690 feet an X 36 feet asphalt.
- Partially paved portions of the runway 20 feet wide
- Non standard threshold marking only
- Non standard threshold marking only
- No centerline.
- No runway centerline
- Runway 09R/27L marked with non-standard thld bars each end; no numbers no centerline.
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.