Rio Vista Municipal
O88 · Rio Vista, California · Solano County · map
Rio Vista Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Rio Vista, 3 miles northwest of Rio Vista, California, 22 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 07/25, is 4,199 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 23 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 35,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA O88
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Rio Vista
- Elevation
- 22 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to THUR, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1994
Runways 3
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 4,199 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 15/33 | 2,199 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 180 × 180 ft | Concrete | Perimeter lights |
- Runway 07: PAPI, two lights on the left
- Runway 25: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 15: PAPI, two lights on the left, pole 25 ft high 1,365 ft from the end
- Runway 33: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.725 | |
| Approach and departure | 119.9 | |
| O88 and aWOS-AV | 127.075 |
Automated weather (AWOS-AV), by phone 707-374-5396.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 35,000, 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.
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 Rio Vista from the FAA register
15 aircraft are registered to owners in Rio Vista, California: 15 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.
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 · 10 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
- Runway 25 calm wind runway.
- Activate runway end identifier lights runway 07, 15, 25, and 33; PAPI runway 07, 15, and 25; medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 and 15/33; perimeter H1 - the common traffic frequency.
- Lead maintenance supervisor
- Fast pay fuel system available 24 hours.
- Noise sensitive area north of runway 33. Do not overfly ranch and corrals off runway 33. All runways climb to 700 feet before turns.
- Helipad: no autorotations hovering AUTO'S or running landings to pavement.
- Helicopter traffic to helipad remain south of airport 500 feet.
- When wind favors runway 15/33 helicopters may use apron area west of runway 15/33; remain west of airport 500 feet.
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.