Fallon Naval Air Station (Van Voorhis Field)
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Fallon Naval Air Station (Van Voorhis Field) is a private airport owned by the US Navy, 3 miles northeast of Fallon, Nevada, 3,935 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 13R/31L, is 14,001 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NFL · ICAO KNFL
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Navy
- Owner
- US Navy
- Elevation
- 3,935 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower with radar approach control · 1530-0700z++ mon-fri, saturday 1800-0200z++, sunday 2000-0200z++, clds holidays, ot by notam
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 3:30 pm to 0700z
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- December 1942
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13R/31L | 14,001 × 201 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
| 13L/31R | 11,076 × 200 ft | Concrete | High-intensity lights |
| 07/25 | 7,003 × 152 ft | Asphalt | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 13R: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 31L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 13L: PAPI, four lights on the right
- Runway 31R: PAPI, four lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Tower | 119.25 | Navy Fallon |
| Approach and departure | 120.85 | Navy Fallon |
| Fallon and center (remote transmitter) Low | 128.8 | Navy Fallon |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (high- and low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high- and low-pressure)
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Fallon Municipal (5 nm northwest), Carson City Airport (50 nm west), Reno/Tahoe International (50 nm west).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Fallon Municipal (5 nm northwest), Silver Springs Airport (26 nm west), Yerington Municipal (33 nm southwest), Derby Field (39 nm north).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Nevada · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- A-GEAR: E-28(B) approach end on parallel runways nml derigged.
- Available durg operations hours.
- Initial all runway 7600 feet; overhead break 5500 feet; no overhead for runway 07; pattern altitude 5000 feet.
- Closed holidays; otr times by NOTAM.
- Hook E28(B) (1300 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (952 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (1804 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (1290 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (1893 feet).
- Hook E28(B) (951 feet).
- Also ST154.
- Large multi eng; fsl/tgl runway 31; lnd past BI-DRCTNL (E28) arresting gear 1892 feet from aer.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Fallon from the FAA register
96 aircraft are registered to owners in Fallon, Nevada: 85 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 3 drones, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes, 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Nevada.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:
- Fallon Muni Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · Fallon, 6 miles away
Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Fallon 96 aircraft · 85 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 3 drones
- N63E LLC 5 aircraft in town
- Frey Jerry P 3 aircraft in town
- Fallon Muni Flyers LLC 1 aircraft · flight school
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 2 since 1982 · 1 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Nevada 1,292 since 1982 · 221 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 6 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Nevada 51 landing places
- Nevada 4,586 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/NFL.json.
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 27, 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.