Vandenberg Space Force Base
VBG · KVBG · Lompoc, California · Santa Barbara County · map
Vandenberg Space Force Base is a private airport owned by Usaf, 7 miles northwest of Lompoc, California, 368 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 12/30, is 15,000 feet of concrete. It has a control tower and fuel (Jet A with additives).
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
Weather and planning now, the forecast, warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions
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The airport facts, runways, radio, fuel and services, the FAA's remarks
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VBG · ICAO KVBG
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · owned by the Air Force
- Owner
- Usaf
- Elevation
- 368 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 8:00 am to 5:00 pm excpt sat-sun and holidays
- Attended
- every day, 4:00 pm to 0100z++
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- Jet A with additives; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 12E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 15,000 × 200 ft | Concrete, good | High-intensity lights |
- Runway 12: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
- Runway 30: ILS, PAPI, four lights on the left, approach lights with sequenced flashers (ALSF-2)
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 124.95 | Vandenberg |
| Digital ATIS | 133.125 | Vandenberg |
| Clearance delivery · Ground | 121.75 | Vandenberg |
| Approach and departure | 124.15 | Vandenberg |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Vandenberg |
| San Luis Obispo Center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.05 | Vandenberg |
| Range and ctl | 121.4 | Vandenberg |
| Comd and post · Pre-taxi clearance | 126.2 | Vandenberg |
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- Jet A with additives
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
Nearest fields reporting avgas: Lompoc Airport (7 nm southeast), Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (12 nm northeast), Oceano County (22 nm north), Santa Ynez/Kunkle Field (26 nm east).
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Lompoc Airport (7 nm southeast), Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field (12 nm northeast), Santa Ynez/Kunkle Field (26 nm east).
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
- Authorized for military use only. Sac/space and missile test center, afsc.
- Beacon out of service.
- When the control tower closed activate als runway 30; PAPI runway 30; high-intensity runway lights runway 12/30 - the common traffic frequency.
- FSS-HAWTHORNE HHR-NOTAM kvbg
- Traffic pattern: overhead 2400, rectangular 1400 feet, light aircraft/copter 900 feet.
- Closed Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
- Service by truck only; exp service delays.
- Runway 12 approach light sys is non-standard ALSF2 confign.
- Runway 30 approach light sys is non-standard ALSF2 confign. Thld lights are 16 feet from the usable pavement surface.
- Runway 12 ILS and PAPI glideslope not coincidental.
- RWY-LGTS: runway 12 - SF.
- RWY-LGTS: runway 30 - SF.
Who flies and works here aircraft registered in town, the companies, the examiners nearby
Aircraft registered in Lompoc from the FAA register
56 aircraft are registered to owners in Lompoc, California: 52 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 helicopter, 1 business jet. 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 Lompoc, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):
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.
Safety record the NTSB's cases at or near this airport
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records
No NTSB accident or incident records name this airport.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in Lompoc 56 aircraft · 52 piston singles, 2 gliders, 1 helicopters
- Skydive Santa Barbara LLC 2 aircraft in town
- Mandibles Edward JR 2 aircraft in town
- Barnstormers Aero Services 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Barnstormers Aero Services INC 1 aircraft · FBO or fuel seller
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,087 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/VBG.json.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 29, 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 28, 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.