Round Valley Airport
O09 · Covelo, California · Mendocino County · map
Round Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by Mendocino County, 1 mile southwest of Covelo, California, 1,434 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 3,670 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 5 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 2,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O09
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Mendocino County
- Elevation
- 1,434 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 3,670 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: threshold displaced 210 ft, hill 250 ft high 2,500 ft from the end
- Runway 28: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 270 ft, trees 100 ft high 3,500 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Covelo from the FAA register
2 aircraft are registered to owners in Covelo, California: 2 piston singles. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 1 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
- Dusk to dawn.
- For medium-intensity runway lights runway 10/28 key 122.8 5 times.
- Road 100 feet from threshold and 4 feet fence 135 feet from threshold; 3 feet tires 80 feet 0B from threshold.
- Road 50 feet from threshold; 4 feet fence 40 feet from threshold; 5 feet fence 110 feet from threshold.
- Approach ratio 10:1 to displaced thld.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 37:1; approach ratio to displaced threshold over +15 feet road 310 feet from displaced threshold 20:1.
- Airport in Valley; high mts and trrn and ridge srnd airport. MT flying experience strongly recommended.
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.