Lone Pine/Death Valley Airport
O26 · Lone Pine, California · Inyo County · map
Lone Pine/Death Valley Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Los Angeles, 1 mile southeast of Lone Pine, California, 3,710 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 16/34, is 3,991 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O26
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Los Angeles
- Elevation
- 3,710 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, irregular hours
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 15E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1942
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/34 | 3,991 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13/31 | 2,391 × 90 ft | Dirt, fair | |
| H1 | 30 × 30 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 16: tree 40 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
- Runway 34: right-hand traffic pattern, fence 4 ft high 315 ft from the end
- Runway 13: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 530 ft, trees 40 ft high 85 ft from the end
- Runway 31: fence 3 ft high 100 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| O26 and aWOS-3 | 118.25 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 760-876-4014.
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 Lone Pine from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Lone Pine, California: 2 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. 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 · 6 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
- Estabd prior 5/15/59.
- Activate beacon - the common traffic frequency.
- Hang glider and skydiving act in vicinty of airport.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 16/34 - the common traffic frequency.
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- Fuel 100LL available 24 hours by credit card.
- 13G/31G no nrs; thresholds and displaced threshold runway 13G marked with tires painted white; white R'S both ends of runway left side.
- Approach ratio 20:1 to displaced thld. Thld actually displaced 625 feet.
- Runway 13/31 restricted to gliders only except prior permission required - the common traffic frequency.
- Helicopter traffic approach airport from east along taxiway to helipad.
- Pilots be alert to psbl wind shear over trees while on approach runway 16 with southeast winds 15 kts or gtr.
- Tower located 2700 feet northwest runway 16 approach end, (136 above ground level) 3717 above sea level, unlighted.
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.