Riverside Municipal Airport
IATA : RAL ICAO : KRAL FAA LID : RAL
Summary
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  / 33.95194; -117.44500
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 9/27 5,401 1,646 Asphalt 16/34 2,850 869 Asphalt
Helipads
Number Length Surface ft m H1 60 18 Asphalt

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]}

Facilities [ edit ]

The airport covers 525 acres (212 ha) and has two runways and one helipad :

• 9/27: 5,401 x 100 ft. (1,646 x 30 m), asphalt
• 16/34: 2,850 x 48 ft. (869 x 15 m), asphalt
• H1: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), 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 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 .

General aviation [ edit ]

The airport is home to about 100 general aviation aircraft.

• FBOs:

  Riverside Air Service

• Airport businesses

  Capital Jet Management

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Riverside Municipal Airport (official City of Riverside website)
• Riverside Airshow
• Civil Air Patrol, Senior Squadron 5
• History of KRIV, KRAL & KRIR
• FAA Airport Diagram   ( PDF ) , effective June 13, 2024
• Resources for this airport:
  • FAA airport information for RAL
  • AirNav airport information for KRAL
  • ASN accident history for RAL
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS weather observations: current , past three days
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart , Terminal Procedures