Rifle Garfield County
RIL · KRIL · Rifle, Colorado · Garfield County · map
Rifle Garfield County is a public-use airport owned by Garfield County, 3 miles east of Rifle, Colorado, 5,537 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 08/26, is 7,000 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A) and about 22 general-aviation aircraft based on the field by the FAA's count. The FAA counts about 14,382 takeoffs and landings a year. About 219 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Quick answers answers refresh every morning
What is the airport code for Rifle Garfield County?
Its FAA code is RIL, and its ICAO code is KRIL.
Where is Rifle Garfield County?
It is 3 miles east of Rifle, Colorado, 5,537 feet above sea level.
How long is the runway at Rifle Garfield County?
Its one runway, 08/26, is 7,000 feet long, asphalt.
Does Rifle Garfield County have a control tower?
No, it has no control tower.
What fuel can you buy at Rifle Garfield County?
The FAA's airport file lists 100LL avgas, Jet A.
Where can you fly nonstop from Rifle Garfield County?
Airline flights go to 8 airports, the busiest of them Chicago Midway International, Teterboro, Van Nuys, Boeing Fld/King County International, Harry Reid International. Every route
Where are the nearest FAA examiners to Rifle Garfield County?
2 pilot examiners and 6 aviation medical examiners work within 50 nautical miles. See them by name
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
Fetching the weather now, the forecast, the warnings in force, pilot reports and the winds aloft for Rifle Garfield County…
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RIL · ICAO KRIL
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Garfield County
- Elevation
- 5,537 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- around the clock
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A; the services card below
- On the chart
- Denver sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 10E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26 | 7,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 08: PAPI, four lights on the left, tower 6 ft high 331 ft from the end
- Runway 26: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| Rifle and center (remote transmitter) Low | 134.95 | |
| Ril and automated weather (ASOS) | 135.275 |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 970-625-2206.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangars, tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Kgws Sumers Airpark (19 nm east), Meeker Coulter Field (32 nm north), Eagle County Regional (38 nm east).
The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in Colorado · avgas.
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Activate odals runway 26; runway end identifier lights runway 08; high-intensity runway lights runway 08/26 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 08 and 26 on continuously.
- For aircraft gross weight 10000 pounds or more.
- Aft winter SN storms airport operations bfr all taxiways are cleared.
- Overnight parking fee.
- Cold temperature airport. Altitude correction required at or below -13C.
- Gld operations in the vicinity of airport.
- Proper dual rdo use (air traffic control/the common traffic frequency) is esntl for safe and efficient traffic flow.
- Use the common traffic frequency prior to entering runway or pattern.
- IFR air traffic control clnc from ril is not authorized to enter runway or takeoff and landing.
- Saturated pattern policy: tgls prohibited when 5 or more aircraft in traffic pattern.
- Flw FAA procedures for NON-TOWERED airports.
- Ctn: SN removal equip operations from 1 oct to 15 may.
Flights and activity in the air now, the airlines, based aircraft, takeoffs and landings
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Arrivals and departures, last hour
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From the volunteer receiver network, a few minutes behind at most; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out; no person is named. Open the live map here.
Scheduled and charter flights from here the DOT's airline reports · August 2025 to July 2026
Airlines reported 39 departures from RIL in those twelve months, carrying 158 passengers in 513 seats (31% filled), to 26 destinations (4 abroad) on 7 airlines.
All 26 destinations, the airlines and the aircraft, month by month
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' T-100 table: every segment an airline reported flying, three months in arrears. Private, business and training flights are not in it; the live picture is in the activity card.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 16 |
| multi-engine | 3 |
| jets | 2 |
| other | 1 |
The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.
Takeoffs and landings a year about 14,382, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| air taxi and commuter | 2,300 |
| general aviation, travelling | 7,292 |
| general aviation, local | 4,760 |
| military | 30 |
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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Rifle from the FAA register
24 aircraft are registered to owners in Rifle, Colorado: 23 piston singles, 1 gyroplane. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in Colorado.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
2 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 2 for private pilot, 2 for commercial and instrument, 1 for airline transport pilot, 2 for flight instructor; 2 for airplanes, 2 for multi-engine airplanes. Also nearby: 6 aviation medical examiners, 1 mechanic examiner, 1 training center examiner.
- Loren French private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Eagle County Airport (KEGE) · Gypsum, CO (32 nm) · (970) 401-4104 · [email protected]
- Bradley John Sullivan private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, ground instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Grand Junction Regional Airport · Grand Junction, CO (44 nm) · (970) 210-5527 · [email protected]
All 10 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 16 since 1982, 2 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Rifle 24 aircraft · 23 piston singles, 1 gyroplanes
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 16 since 1982 · 2 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in Colorado 2,857 since 1982 · 381 in the last ten years
- Chicago Midway International (MDW) 6 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- Teterboro (TEB) 5 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc., Scott Aviation, LLC d/b/a Silver Air
- Van Nuys (VNY) 3 flights in twelve months · Scott Aviation, LLC d/b/a Silver Air, ADVANCED AIR, LLC
- Boeing Fld/King County International (BFI) 2 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- Harry Reid International (LAS) 2 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- Aspen-Pitkin County/Sardy Field (ASE) 1 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- Boise Air Trml/Gowen Field (BOI) 1 flights in twelve months · Jet Aviation Flight Services, Inc.
- Carlsbad (CLD) 1 flights in twelve months · Scott Aviation, LLC d/b/a Silver Air
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in Colorado 76 landing places
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/RIL.json.
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 27, 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.