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Petaluma Municipal

O69 · Petaluma, California · Sonoma County · map

Petaluma Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Petaluma, 1 mile northeast of Petaluma, California, 90 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 3,600 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).

The airport

Codes
FAA O69
Kind
Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
Owner
City of Petaluma
Elevation
90 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
On the chart
San Francisco sectional
Magnetic variation
16E
In the FAA's files since
June 1949

This airport's record at the FAA

Runway

1129N1,000 ft

Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.

RunwayLength × widthSurfaceLights
11/293,600 × 75 ftAsphalt, excellentMedium-intensity lights
  • Runway 11: trees 65 ft high 2,500 ft from the end
  • Runway 29: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM122.7
Mount Tamalpais Center (remote transmitter) Low127.8
O69 and aWOS-3P132.325

Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 707-773-1529.

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 Petaluma from the FAA register

93 aircraft are registered to owners in Petaluma, California: 71 piston singles, 11 drones, 5 business jets, 2 piston twins, 1 turboprop. 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:

Arcturus UAV INC 9Mangon Aircraft INC 2Cierva Service LLC 2Av INC 2

Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 21 since 1982, 6 fatal

2022-10-15WPR23LA014 · Boeing A75N1(Pt17) N42PT · accident · no injuries
2022-07-04WPR22LA241 · Cessna 182H N8414S · accident · no injuries
2021-07-10WPR21LA269 · Cessna 172R N996RA · accident · no injuries
2021-03-27WPR21LA167 · American Legend Aircraft CO Al3 N712YP · accident · no injuries
2018-05-27WPR18FA150 · Morrison Marvin e JR Rv 6A N4269Y · accident · 2 killed
2018-04-07ANC18FA028 · Mooney M20J N9133Z · accident · 1 killed
2016-12-04WPR17LA032 · Hoskins Lonnie F Velocity Xl Rg N84KJ · accident · minor injuries
2015-04-03WPR15FA140 · Quicksilver Enterprises INC Mxl II N476VB · accident · 1 killed
2010-08-14WPR10CA403 · Air Creation Clipper 582S N468DW · accident · minor injuries
2010-05-22WPR10CA296 · Cessna P210N N210SL · accident · no injuries
2009-06-20WPR09LA301 · Paul Antares N729YF · accident · serious injuries
2004-07-11LAX04LA283 · Cessna 182A N4094D · accident · no injuries

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

  • Noise abatement procedure 800 feet above sea level before crosswind turn; straight out climb to 1500 feet above sea level for departures; downwind stay outside adobe road; avoid overflights of the old odobe historic park.
  • Activate runway end identifier lights runway 29; PAPI runway 29; medium-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency.
  • Calm wind runway 29.

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.