Mefford Field
TLR · KTLR · Tulare, California · Tulare County · map
Mefford Field is a public-use airport owned by the City of Tulare, 3 miles southeast of Tulare, California, 265 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 3,901 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA TLR · ICAO KTLR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Tulare
- Elevation
- 265 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to dusk
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 3,901 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: PAPI, two lights on the left, road 15 ft high 500 ft from the end
- Runway 31: PAPI, two lights on the left
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.7 | |
| Approach and departure | 118.5 | |
| Tlr and aWOS-3PT | 120.0 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 559-686-2613.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in Tulare from the FAA register
40 aircraft are registered to owners in Tulare, California: 24 piston singles, 7 drones, 4 turboprops, 3 helicopters, 1 glider. 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, 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
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 13/31 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI 13 operators continuously.
- Unusable beyond 7 degrees R of centerline.
- This airport has been surveyed by the national geodetic survey.
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.