Tehachapi Municipal
TSP · KTSP · Tehachapi, California · Kern County · map
Tehachapi Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Tehachapi in Tehachapi, California, 4,001 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 11/29, is 4,040 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
Weather right now KTSP · observed 1:15 pm PDT (20:15 UTC), 21 minutes ago
VFR good flying weather
- Wind calm
- Visibility 10 miles or more
- Sky: a few clouds at 10,000 feet
- Temperature 88°F (31°C), dew point 37°F (3°C)
- Altimeter 30.11 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KTSP 062015Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW100 31/03 A3011 RMK AO2
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 TSP · ICAO KTSP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Tehachapi
- Elevation
- 4,001 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 7:00 am to 5:30 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 | 4,040 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 11: PAPI, two lights on the left, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 300 ft, hill 276 ft high 4,800 ft from the end
- Runway 29: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 367 ft, rr 32 ft high 635 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency. |
| Tsp and aWOS-3P | 120.025 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3P), by phone 661-823-0473.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Tehachapi from the FAA register
165 aircraft are registered to owners in Tehachapi, California: 117 piston singles, 43 gliders, 2 piston twins, 2 business jets, 1 turboprop. 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 · 19 since 1982, 5 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
- Estabd prior to 1959.
- Activate high-intensity runway lights runway 11/29 - the common traffic frequency.
- Fuel 24 hours credit card.
- Unusable beyond 4 NM due to trrn.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 18:1.
- Approach ratio to displaced threshold 31:1.
- Lighted OBSTN/MOUNTAIN/1 MI west of airport (4279' above sea level).
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.