Stockton Metro Airport
SCK · KSCK · Stockton, California · San Joaquin County · map
Stockton Metro Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of San Joaquin, 3 miles southeast of Stockton, California, 33 feet above sea level. It has 3 runways; the longest, 11L/29R, is 10,245 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100 octane avgas, 100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KSCK · observed 11:55 am PDT (18:55 UTC), 60 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind variable at 5 knots
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Temperature 90°F (32°C), dew point 58°F (14°C)
- Altimeter 29.91 inHg
The forecast issued Tue 10:20 am PDT (17:20 UTC), good until Wed 11:00 am PDT (18:00 UTC)
- From Tue 11:00 am PDT (18:00 UTC): wind from the northwest at 6 knots, visibility more than 6 miles, clear skies VFR
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KSCK 061855Z VRB05KT 10SM CLR 32/14 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP126 T03220144 $
TAF KSCK 061720Z 0618/0718 31006KT P6SM SKC
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 SCK · ICAO KSCK
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of San Joaquin
- Elevation
- 33 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 7:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 5:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100 octane avgas, 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- hangar
- Notes
- landing fee · certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- San Francisco 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11L/29R | 10,245 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
| 11R/29L | 4,448 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | |
| H1 | 70 × 70 ft | Concrete, good |
- Runway 11L: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 1,000 ft, 8,650 ft available for landing
- Runway 29R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 595 ft, 8,650 ft available for landing
- Runway 11R: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 29L: threshold displaced 1,063 ft, 3,385 ft available for landing
- Runway H1: omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 120.3 | Stockton |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 118.25 | Stockton |
| Ground | 121.9 | Stockton |
| Approach SE-NW, 7000 feet and below | 123.85 | Stockton |
| Approach · Departure NORTH-SE, 7000 feet and below | 125.1 | Stockton |
| Approach (secondary) 8000 feet and above | 124.8 | Stockton |
| Stockton and rco | 122.4 | Stockton |
| Ng and operations | 139.4 | Stockton |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 209-625-0001.
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Aircraft registered in Stockton from the FAA register
99 aircraft are registered to owners in Stockton, California: 73 piston singles, 8 piston twins, 8 business jets, 4 turboprops, 3 drones. 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 · 24 since 1982, 2 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
- Seagulls on and in vicinity of airport mostly during rainy weather.
- Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 11L/29R, PAPI runway 11L and runway 29R, approach lights (MALSR) runway 29R - the common traffic frequency.
- Landing fee for aircraft over 12500 pounds.
- Runway 11R/29L 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.
- Unusable beyond 9 degreess right of centerline.
- Avoid overflying San Joaquin general hospital and the city of manteca.
- Airport closed to tgl and planned low approaches for turbojet aircraft 10:00 pm to 7:00 am except by prior permission required from amgr part 36 stage 3 aircraft.
- Practice circling approaches to runways 11L/11R NA for any turbine powered aircraft/prop driven aircraft exceeding 12500 pounds except by prior permission required from amgr.
- The flwg areas not visible from the control tower: taxiway B from terminal apn to int at taxiway M; taxiway B from 300 feet west of taxiway J to 375 feet east of taxiway J; non movement area south of taxiway B from terminal apn to 200 feet west of taxiway H; southeast half of terminal apn; transient parking apn.
- Transient parking available at the FBO (fixed-base operator).
- Be alert to elevd approach lights (MALSR) approach end runway 29R located on blast pad.
- Terminal apn, cargo apn, taxiways B, B2, B3, F, D, D7, D9, and H for aircraft over 12500 pounds. All otr taxiways rstrd to aircraft less than 12500 pounds.
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.