Lake Oroville Landing Area
O06 · Oroville, California · Butte County · map
Lake Oroville Landing Area is a public-use airfield owned by Calif Dept of Water Resources, 5 miles northeast of Oroville, California, 900 feet above sea level. It has 1 water landing area. It has fuel (car gas (mogas)).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O06
- Kind
- Airfield · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Calif Dept of Water Resources
- Elevation
- 900 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Fuel
- car gas (mogas)
- Parking
- buoy
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1980
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL/WAY | 9,000 × 9,000 ft | Water |
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Oroville from the FAA register
40 aircraft are registered to owners in Oroville, California: 32 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 3 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airfield; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airfield 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 airfield NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airfield.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR use only.
- Lake elevation varies from 700 - 900 feet above sea level.
- Traffic pattern altitude 800'AGL.
- Supervisory ranger, CA state parks.
- Landing zone is a 9000 feet diameter circular area in center of main body of Lake.
- Landing area located in center of main body of Lake.
- Floating debris during OCT-JUL.
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.