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California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (KACV) serves the twin communities of Arcata and Eureka from a site a few miles north in McKinleyville, on California's rugged redwood coast. It combines scheduled airline service with a busy general-aviation base and a US Coast Guard air station, all served by two hard-surfaced runways and an ILS approach that make it one of the more capable fields in this stretch of Northern California.
California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport lies on the Pacific coast of Northern California, a short hop north of the Arcata and Eureka urban area. It is a county-owned field that mixes commercial airline operations with a substantial general-aviation community and a US Coast Guard air station, making it an interesting and useful destination for a VFR pilot exploring the redwood coast.
The airport sits a few miles north of Arcata and Eureka, in the McKinleyville area of Humboldt County, close to the Pacific shoreline. It occupies a substantial 745-acre site (skyvector.com) roughly seven nautical miles north of the Arcata/Eureka urban area.
The airfield has two hard-surfaced, lit runways. The main runway, 14/32, is listed at 5795 feet for runway 14 and 5847 feet for runway 32, with an ILS serving runway 32. A shorter secondary runway, 01/19, measures 4464 feet in each direction and is also hard-surfaced and lit.
CTAF/UNICOM is on 123 MHz. Weather is available via ASOS on 118.525 MHz. Seattle Center provides en-route radar service on 124.85 MHz, and Oakland Radio can be reached on 122.6 MHz. A separate Coast Guard Air Ops frequency of 34.5 MHz reflects the presence of the Coast Guard air station on the field. An ILS is available for runway 32.
The airport is home to the US Coast Guard's Air Station-Sector Humboldt Bay, giving it a long-standing role in coastal search-and-rescue operations alongside its civilian flying activity (humboldtgov.org).
The airport functions as a hub for general aviation in Humboldt County, offering 17 county-owned hangars, a large multi-purpose hangar, and tiedown space for transient aircraft (humboldtgov.org). It also supports scheduled airline services, including routes operated by Alaska Airlines and Breeze Airways, and is described locally as having state-of-the-art instrument approach capability (humboldtgov.org).
