Red Bluff Municipal Airport is two miles south of
Red Bluff, located just off
Interstate 5 in
Tehama County
Tehama County ( ; Wintun for "high water") is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,829. The county seat and largest city is Red Bluff.
Tehama County comprises th ...
,
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
. It was previously known as Bidwell Airport. It has no scheduled airline flights;
United Airlines
United Airlines, Inc. (commonly referred to as United), is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois. dropped Red Bluff in 1952,
Pacific Air Lines left in 1962 and the airport has had few or no airline flights since. RBL sees
general aviation
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and occasional transient aircraft.
Facilities
The airport covers and has one
asphalt
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runway
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...
: (15/33), 5,431 x 100 ft (1,655 x 30 m). The land was purchased from Tyler Graham in the late 1950s.
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Airports in Tehama County, California
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