Santa Barbara Municipal

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 3

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

• Runway 07: ILS with DME, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, tree 77 ft high 3,100 ft from the end
• Runway 25: PAPI, four lights on the left, fence 6 ft high 275 ft from the end
• Runway 15R: tree 53 ft high 600 ft from the end
• Runway 33L: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 65 ft high 1,300 ft from the end
• Runway 15L: 3,963 ft available for landing, building 37 ft high 900 ft from the end
• Runway 33R: right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 805-957-6133.

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Santa Ynez/Kunkle Field (16 nm northwest), Oxnard Airport (34 nm southeast), Lompoc Airport (34 nm northwest).

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 California · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

• Landing fee for part 135 operators and transient aircraft with maximum gross weight of 10000 pounds or more. Fees will be billed/mailed.
• When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 07; runway end identifier lights runways 15R and 25; high-intensity runway lights runway 07/25; medium-intensity runway lights runway 15R/33L - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 25 operates continuously.
• Pattern altitude 990 feet small aircraft; 1490 feet large aircraft.
• 100LL fuel 24 hour credit card service available.
• Runway 15L/33R not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
• Runway 15R/33L not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
• Numerous flocks of birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
• Pure jet touch-and-go or low approaches prohibited.
• Runway 15L/33R daylight hours only.
• Commercial airline ramp closed to all general aviation aircraft.
• No customs personnel or facilities are available and international aircraft will not be allowed to land unless an emergency exists.

Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024

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 aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.

Takeoffs and landings a year about 101,282, 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. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.

Aircraft registered in Santa Barbara from the FAA register

158 aircraft are registered to owners in Santa Barbara, California: 110 piston singles, 10 turboprops, 10 business jets, 9 piston twins, 9 gliders. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Fuel and service companies in Santa Barbara, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

• Pacific FBO Properties LLC

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

• Above All Aviation INC 13 aircraft · Santa Barbara Above All Aviation is a flight school and flying club based in Santa Barbara, California.
• Santa Barbara Flying Club 3 aircraft · Goleta, 1 mile away The Santa Barbara Flying Club is a California non-profit flying club founded in 1948 that provides members access to a fleet of general aviation aircraft based at Santa Barbara Airport in Goleta.
• Channel City Flyers INC 2 aircraft · Goleta, 1 mile away
• Island View Flying Club 1 aircraft · Goleta, 1 mile away The Santa Barbara Flying Club is a California non-profit flying club founded in 1948 that provides member access to a fleet of general aviation aircraft based at Santa Barbara Airport.

Charter operators and airlines based in Santa Barbara:

• Silver Air (Scott Aviation, LLC) 15 aircraft on the certificate
• Above All Aviation, Inc. 2 aircraft on the certificate Above All Aviation is a flight school, flying club, charter operator, and aircraft maintenance facility based in Santa Barbara, California.
• Jacob Stern and Sons, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 50 since 1982, 13 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