Reid-Hillview Of Santa Clara County
RHV · KRHV · San Jose, California · Santa Clara County · map
Reid-Hillview Of Santa Clara County is a public-use airport owned by the County of Santa Clara, 4 miles southeast of San Jose, California, 135 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 13L/31R, is 3,100 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (Jet A, G100UL unleaded avgas, UL94 unleaded avgas).
Weather right now KRHV · observed 1:59 pm PDT (20:59 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind from the north-northwest (330°) at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 91°F (33°C), dew point 54°F (12°C)
- Altimeter 29.87 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 KRHV 062059Z 33005KT 10SM SKC 33/12 A2987
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 RHV · ICAO KRHV
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of Santa Clara
- Elevation
- 135 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- Jet A, G100UL unleaded avgas, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1942
Runways 2
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13L/31R | 3,100 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
| 13R/31L | 3,099 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair |
- Runway 13L: PAPI, four lights on the right, threshold displaced 499 ft, tree 47 ft high 920 ft from the end
- Runway 31R: PAPI, four lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 410 ft, road 16 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 13R: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 499 ft, tree 55 ft high 1,016 ft from the end
- Runway 31L: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 409 ft, road 18 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower Runway 13L/31R | 119.8 | Reid-Hillview |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 125.2 | Reid-Hillview |
| Ground | 121.65 | Reid-Hillview |
| Tower Runway 13R/31L | 126.1 | Reid-Hillview |
| Approach | 120.1 | Reid-Hillview |
| Approach (secondary) | 133.95 | Reid-Hillview |
| Approach (secondary) | 134.5 | Reid-Hillview |
| Departure | 121.3 | Reid-Hillview |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in San Jose from the FAA register
371 aircraft are registered to owners in San Jose, California: 293 piston singles, 20 piston twins, 19 gliders, 15 business jets, 7 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 · 77 since 1982, 5 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 31R calm wind runway when the control tower closed.
- When the control tower closed activate runway end identifier lights runways 13L and 31R; medium-intensity runway lights runway 13L/31R - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runways 13L, 31R and 31L operates continuously.
- Director of airports, eric peterson
- 100LL unavailable.
- Runway 13R/31L unlighted.
- Street crosses extdd centerline.
- And 31L +6 feet fence 150 feet from threshold; runway 31R and 31L road edge 155 feet from threshold.
- Runway 13L approach ratio to displaced thld 30:1.
- Runway 13R approach ratio to displaced thld 27:1.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 33:1
- Runway 31R approach ratio to displaced thld 34:1.
- No pure jet and no surplus military aircraft except those meeting far 36 noise criteria.
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.