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Rio Vista Municipal Airport, also known as Jack Baumann Field, is a city-owned general aviation field in California's Sacramento River Delta, three miles northwest of the town of Rio Vista. It offers a pair of asphalt runways and is currently home to the Travis AFB Aero Club, making it a useful and uncomplicated stop for pilots exploring the Delta region.
Rio Vista Municipal Airport, known locally as Jack Baumann Field, is a public general aviation airport owned and operated by the City of Rio Vista. It sits on the western edge of the town of Rio Vista in the heart of the Sacramento River Delta, and is the current home base for the Travis AFB Aero Club. For a simulator pilot, it offers an easy VFR destination amid the flat delta scenery, with a longer paved runway for training and touring aircraft alongside a shorter strip for light general aviation traffic.
The airport lies three miles northwest of the city of Rio Vista in Solano County, California, within the Sacramento River Delta. The town itself is situated along State Route 12 between Fairfield and Lodi, on the banks of the Sacramento River, which is spanned nearby by the Helen Madere Memorial Bridge. The field is a non-towered general aviation airport covering 273 acres.
Rio Vista Municipal has two physical runways. The primary runway, 07/25, is 4,158 feet long, hard-surfaced and lit. The secondary runway, 15/33, is 2,166 feet long, also hard-surfaced and lit. There is no ILS approach at the field.
No instrument landing system is available at Rio Vista Municipal, and the field has no published radio frequency or navaid detail in the available sources.
The airport sits on the western boundary of the city of Rio Vista, making the town itself, the Sacramento River, and State Route 12 useful visual references for pilots approaching the field from the surrounding delta landscape.
The current Rio Vista Municipal Airport opened in 1993, replacing the original Rio Vista Airport, which lay northeast of the town and was closed in 1995 after suffering flooding. The airport is named Jack Baumann Field and is now the base of operations for the Travis AFB Aero Club.
The airport remains a city-operated general aviation field covering 273 acres, with a 4,200-foot by 75-foot primary runway and a 2,200-foot by 60-foot secondary runway, plus a small concrete helipad. It continues to serve as the base for the Travis AFB Aero Club.