Columbia Airport
O22 · Columbia, California · Tuolumne County · map
Columbia Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of Tuolumne, 1 mile southwest of Columbia, California, 2,121 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 17/35, is 4,673 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O22
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Tuolumne
- Elevation
- 2,121 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17/35 | 4,673 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 11/29 | 2,607 × 50 ft | Grass, good |
- Runway 17: VASI, two boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 598 ft, gnd 33 ft high 450 ft from the end
- Runway 35: VASI, two boxes on the left, threshold displaced 384 ft, trees 61 ft high 1,700 ft from the end
- Runway 11: right-hand traffic pattern, trees 135 ft high 2,190 ft from the end
- Runway 29: trees 115 ft high 1,600 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.975 | |
| Approach and departure WEST-NORTH | 125.1 | |
| Angels Camp Center (remote transmitter) Low | 121.25 | |
| O22 and aWOS-3 | 124.65 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 209-536-9384.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Columbia from the FAA register
29 aircraft are registered to owners in Columbia, California: 21 piston singles, 6 turboprops, 2 piston twins. 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 · 29 since 1982, 5 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
- Airport has two rotating beacons; one on the airport and one 6500' southeast threshold runway 35.
- Calfire air tanker operators from airport drg fire season.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 17/35 and runway end identifier lights runways 17 and 35 - the common traffic frequency. VASI runway 17 and runway 35 oper continuously.
- Pattern altitude runway 11/29 800 feet above ground level.
- Runway end safety areas non-standard length; runway 17 210 feet; runway 35 300 feet.
- Runway 35 VASI unusable beyond 5 degrees left and right of runway centerline.
- Approach ratio from displaced thld 31:1.
- Approach ratio from displaced thld 37:1.
- Varying wind direction and velocity may be encountered at mid point of runway 17/35 due to terrain features and wind flow patterns.
- Runway 11 departures prohibited due to conflict with main runway.
- Grass taxiway north side of runway 11/29 not recommended for use nov - mar
- Runway 29 not recommended for use during winter months nov through mar.
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.