Riverside Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | City of Riverside | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Area | ||||||||||||||
Location | Riverside, California | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 819 ft / 250 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°57′07″N 117°26′42″W / 33.95194°N 117.44500°W | ||||||||||||||
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Riverside Municipal Airport (Riverside Arlington Airport, decades ago) ( IATA: RAL, ICAO: KRAL, FAA LID: RAL), is four miles (6 km) southwest of downtown Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States. [1]
Scheduled flights to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport (Arizona) on Western Express Air ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007. [2]
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.
In 2013, FedEx Express, a cargo airline, donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program. The aircraft is on permanent display at the airport and provides a working laboratory for aviation science students. The aircraft, N266FE (cn 21672/1538), is a Boeing 727-233/Adv(F). [3] [4]
The airport covers 525 acres (212 ha) and has two runways and one helipad:
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 6,153 feet (1,875 m). 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.
The airport is home to about 100 general aviation aircraft.