Lonnie Pool Fld/Weaverville Airport
O54 · Weaverville, California · Trinity County · map
Lonnie Pool Fld/Weaverville Airport is a public-use airport owned by Trinity County, 1 mile northeast of Weaverville, California, 2,350 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 18/36, is 3,181 feet of asphalt. It has about 5 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 5,500 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O54
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Trinity County
- Elevation
- 2,350 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Klamath Falls sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 17E
- In the FAA's files since
- January 1955
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18/36 | 3,181 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 18: trees 60 ft high 240 ft from the end
- Runway 36: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 90 ft, road 10 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| O54 and aWOS-3 | 120.850 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3), by phone 530-623-3810.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 5,500, 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.
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 Weaverville from the FAA register
9 aircraft are registered to owners in Weaverville, California: 6 piston singles, 2 turboprops, 1 helicopter. 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 · 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
- Estabd prior to 15 may 1959.
- Road 50 feet east of centerline at runway 18 threshold and 60 feet trees in primary surface 80 feet east of runway centerline.
- Director of transportation
- +15 feet road 0 feet from runway end 60 feet left.
- Hwy 5-10 feet below runway threshold; 0-200 feet from runway threshold 125 feet right to 25 feet right.
- Runway 36 approach ratio 30:1 from displaced thld; approach ratio 20:1 over 45 feet tree 935 feet from displaced thld 230 feet right.
- Airport closed nights.
- Land runway 36 only. Takeoff runway 18 only. Touch and GO'S prohibited. Recommend no GO-AROUNDS below 2,600 feet above sea level. Takeoff prohibited on runway 36 due to runway elev increase of appx 100 feet on north end of runway. Tall trees and rising terrain north of airport. Significant variations in wind direction and intst can occur at the approach to runway 36.
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.
