Rancho Murieta Airport
RIU · KRIU · Rancho Murieta, California · Sacramento County · map
Rancho Murieta Airport is a public-use airport owned by Rancho Murieta Airport INC., 1 mile west of Rancho Murieta, California, 144 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 04/22, is 3,798 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA RIU · ICAO KRIU
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Rancho Murieta Airport INC.
- Elevation
- 144 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- hangar, tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
- In the FAA's files since
- September 1970
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 3,798 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 04: VASI, two boxes on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, road 8 ft high 222 ft from the end
- Runway 22: VASI, two boxes on the left, tree 95 ft high 2,370 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 |
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Aircraft registered in Rancho Murieta from the FAA register
16 aircraft are registered to owners in Rancho Murieta, California: 12 piston singles, 3 piston twins, 1 balloon. 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
- VFR ONLY-TFC pattern to northwest.
- 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Landing fees apply: pstn sngl $25, pstn twin $40, turbo prop $75, jet $100.
- VASI out of service indefinitely.
- VASI out of service indefinitely.
- All tnsnt aircraft required to park in dsgnd transient area.
- Deer on and in the vicinity of runway
- +30 feet obs lit power poles parallel to runway 04/22.
- All ultralights must comply with far 103 and have an operating aircraft radio.
- Intersection takeoffs prohibited
- Fsls only: no tgls allowed.
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.