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Carson Airport is a general aviation field three miles northeast of Carson City, the state capital of Nevada, sitting at an elevation of 4,698 feet in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada. It is a busy reliever airport for the region, hosting a large fleet of based aircraft including amphibians that regularly operate to and from nearby Lake Tahoe.
Carson Airport serves Carson City, Nevada, and is operated by the Carson City Airport Authority. It functions as a general aviation reliever airport within the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems, with a single paved runway and a mix of light aircraft, jets, helicopters, gliders and ultralights based on the field. A notable feature of the based fleet is a number of amphibious aircraft that fly out to land on Lake Tahoe, giving the airport a distinctive character among Nevada general aviation fields.
The airport lies three miles northeast of Carson City, the capital of Nevada, in the high desert terrain east of the Sierra Nevada range. It sits at a field elevation of 4,698 feet, and pilots should note the high altitude and surrounding mountainous terrain when planning approaches and departures.
Carson Airport has a single physical runway, 09/27, 6,080 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS approach available.
The field broadcasts an automated weather observation on AWOS at 119.925 MHz. Traffic advisories and unicom communications are handled on 123.000 MHz, which also serves as the common traffic advisory frequency. There is no published instrument landing system.
Carson Airport is operated by the Carson City Airport Authority and has been classified by the FAA as a reliever airport. In the year ending June 2022 it recorded 86,088 aircraft operations, an average of 236 per day, with the great majority being general aviation traffic alongside a small proportion of air taxi and military movements. Historically, the airport briefly saw scheduled airline service: from late 1984 through early 1985 SkyWest Airlines operated nonstop flights to Las Vegas twice daily using Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner commuter propjets.
The airport today supports a substantial general aviation community, with 285 aircraft based there as of 2022, comprising single and multi-engine piston types, jets, helicopters, gliders and ultralights. A number of based amphibious aircraft make regular use of nearby Lake Tahoe for water operations. Weather information is available via AWOS, and traffic is coordinated by pilots themselves on the common unicom/CTAF frequency, reflecting the airport's status as a non-towered field.
