Farias Wheel Airport
NV33 · Smith Valley, Nevada · Lyon County · map
Farias Wheel Airport is a private airport owned by Valley View Airport LLC, 6 miles east of Smith Valley, Nevada, 4,848 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 16/34, is 3,391 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA NV33
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Owner
- Valley View Airport LLC
- Elevation
- 4,848 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel and services
- no fuel reported; the services card below
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1965
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,391 × 22 ft | Asphalt, good | Non-standard lights |
- Runway 16: tree 30 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 34: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 40 ft high 200 ft from the end
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- none reported
- Parking
- tie-downs
Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Minden-Tahoe Airport (19 nm northwest), Carson City Airport (27 nm northwest), Lake Tahoe Airport (28 nm west), Hawthorne Industrial Airport (40 nm southeast).
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Yerington Municipal (15 nm northeast), Minden-Tahoe Airport (19 nm northwest), Carson City Airport (27 nm northwest), Lake Tahoe Airport (28 nm west).
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
- Activate rotating beacon - 122.9.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - 122.9.
- Non-standard medium-intensity runway lights; not full length; extds only first 2/3 of runways.
- Cntr 22 feet asphalt on 100 feet wide dirt runway.
- Road 120 feet from threshold.
- Dgnl road 100 feet from threshold.
- Prior permission required for operations - amgr.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Smith Valley from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Smith Valley, NV as the owner's town.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
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. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 1 since 1982 · 0 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Nevada 1,292 since 1982 · 221 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 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/NV33.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.