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KL35 · RBF

Big Bear City Airport

34.26380°N
-116.85600°W
ARR / DAY
3
48.8%
DEP / DAY
1
50.0%

Big Bear City Airport (KL35/RBF) is a small general aviation airport located in Big Bear, CA, 27 mi north east of San Bernardino. It features 1 runway measuring 5,850 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 3 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

23h ago
Temp
70°F
Wind
7 kts
50°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
KL35 031635Z AUTO 05007KT 10SM FEW340 21/M05 A3027 RMK AO2 T02131051 $

Runways

1 installed

5,850 FT MAX
8/26
5,850 ft × 75
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

8
84% of ops
84 land · 0 TO
26
16% of ops
16 land · 0 TO
Runway 8 carries 84% of operations (84 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 16%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

8 84 landings
UA 0%
26 16 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 8 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 84 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy — hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg
4.0
flights/day · 121 total
Busy hour (local)
6pm
also 4pm · 5pm
Day vs night
49%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 5pm–6pm local, averaging 4.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.4× weekday (7.2 vs 3.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here — top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (15% of 92 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-05-14
Type Freq (MHz) Hours
CTAF 122.725
UNICOM 122.725
AWOS 135.925
BARSTOW 126.350
BARSTOW 290.200
Airport operations
ARTCC:
ZLA
Mag var:
14° E
Fuel:
100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports — click to expand

1
Anonymous
07/04/2013
Density altitude
I got checked out here last week. It was only 80F and the density altitude was already above 9000 ft! It took most of the lake to fly a pattern - be careful on warm days! It is completely worth it if you're careful. Beautiful, and you're right in the middle of town.
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