Riverside Airport
RAL · KRAL · Riverside, California · Riverside County · map
Riverside Airport is a public-use airport owned by the City of Riverside, 4 miles southwest of Riverside, California, 819 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 09/27, is 5,401 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KRAL · observed 11:53 am PDT (18:53 UTC), 62 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the west (280°) at 3 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 98°F (37°C), dew point 47°F (8°C)
- Altimeter 29.88 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KRAL 061853Z 28003KT 10SM CLR 37/08 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP099 T03670083
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RAL · ICAO KRAL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Riverside
- Elevation
- 819 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- M to F, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm; S to S, 6:00 am to 4:00 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
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 3
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 5,401 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 16/34 | 2,850 × 50 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| H1 | 60 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | Perimeter lights |
- Runway 09: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, gnd 37 ft high 1,155 ft from the end
- Runway 16: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 34: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 121.0 | Riverside |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Ral and automated weather (ASOS) | 128.8 | Riverside |
| Ground | 124.125 | Riverside |
| Approach and departure · Class C airspace SOUTH-SW | 135.4 | Riverside |
| Ral and vor | 108.6 | |
| Seter and star · Ziggy and star | 127.0 | Riverside |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 951-352-4392.
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 Riverside from the FAA register
210 aircraft are registered to owners in Riverside, California: 177 piston singles, 12 piston twins, 8 business jets, 5 helicopters, 3 turboprops. 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 · 33 since 1982, 7 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
- Aircraft departure runways 09 and 27 not vsbl to aircraft at other end of runway.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runways 09/27 and 16/34; taxiway lights; helicopter peri lights - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 09, 27 and 34 operates continuously.
- Pattern altitude light aircraft 1000'; jet and all other aircraft 1500'.
- Supplemental wind cone 0 feet from threshold 350 feet south of runway centerline.
- Runway 27: -20 feet ditch 50 feet from runway 27 thld.
- Power plant 3,000 feet north of runway 16 thld producing thermal plume, avoidance advised,
- Numerous power lines 1,780 - 2,887 feet north of runway 16 thld at or below 80 feet above ground level.
- South 1,400 feet of runway 34 and taxiway J and south 500 feet of taxiway B not vsb from tower.
- Taxiway east steep slope
- Taxiway L not vsb from tower.
- Turbine eng aircraft: preferred rolling takeoff for noise mgmt.
- Runway 27 departure: for noise mgmt, after departure turn right 10 degreess; assume crs after rchg 1500 above sea level.
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.