Airports / KL35 / Big Bear City AirportIATA RBFGood ground coverage

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KL35 · RBF

Big Bear City Airport

34.26380°N

-116.85600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 63.9%

DEP / DAY

▼ 81.8%

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 2 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago

Temp

82°F

Wind

12 kts

270°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KL35 260035Z AUTO 27012G18KT 9SM CLR 28/06 A3031 RMK AO2 T02750060 $

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

84% of ops

508 land · 44 TO

16% of ops

100 land · 376 TO

Runway 8 carries 84% of operations (508 landings, 44 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

8 508 landings

UA 0%

26 100 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 8 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 508 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

11.8

flights/day · 354 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 10pm · 8pm

Day vs night

48%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 11.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (20.0 vs 9.2 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (15% of 238 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

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

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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