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KL35 · RBF

Big Bear City Airport

34.26380°N

-116.85600°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 14.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 23.1%

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

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Temp

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Wind

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Visib

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Ceil

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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

88% of ops

289 land · 23 TO

12% of ops

39 land · 167 TO

Runway 8 carries 88% of operations (289 landings, 23 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 12%.

Approach quality

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

8 289 landings

UA 0%

26 39 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 8 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 289 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

11.0

flights/day · 330 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 5pm · 4pm

Day vs night

58%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–7pm local, averaging 11.0 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.5× weekday (14.8 vs 10.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (13% of 205 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.725	—
UNICOM	122.725	—
AWOS	135.925	—
BARSTOW	126.350	—
OTHER	126.350	—
BARSTOW	290.200	—
OTHER	290.200	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Mag var:: 14° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

Anonymous

7/4/2013

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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