Riverside Municipal Airport
Riverside Municipal Airport , is four miles southwest of downtown Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County, California.
Scheduled flights to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport on Western Express Air ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007.
Runway 9/27 was paved about 1956 and Bonanza Air Lines appeared soon after; until 1969 it and successor Air West flew DC-3s and Fairchild F-27s to LAX, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and beyond. Golden West Airlines served Riverside in the 1970s with nonstop and direct de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters to LAX.
Riverside Municipal Airport has been home to Civil Air Patrol Squadron 5 since 2005.
"FedEx Express donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program. The aircraft will be on permanent display at the airport and will provide a working laboratory for aviation science students." The aircraft, N266FE, is a Boeing 727-233/Adv. A video of its arrival on January 10, 2013 can be .Facilities
The airport covers and has two runways and one helipad:
- 9/27: 5,401 x 100 ft. Asphalt
- 16/34: 2,850 x 48 ft. Asphalt
- H1: 60 x 60 ft. Asphalt
The runway has ILS, GPS, and VOR approaches.
Should there be plans to expand, the Airport's Master Plan supports lengthening runway 9/27 to. Runway 27 has a Visual Approach Slope Indicator.
The crosswind runway, RWY 16-34, is suited for smaller aircraft. Runway 34 has a Precision Approach Path Indicator.General aviation
The airport is home to about 100 general aviation aircraft.
- FBOs:
- :
- Airport businesses
- :
