Riverside Municipal Airport

Riverside Municipal Airport (Riverside Arlington Airport, decades ago), is four miles (6 km) southwest of downtown Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States.

Scheduled flights to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport (Arizona) on Western Express Air ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007.

Runway 9/27 was paved about 1956 and Bonanza Air Lines appeared soon after; until 1969 it and successor Air West flew DC-3s and Fairchild F-27s to LAX, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and beyond. Golden West Airlines served Riverside in the 1970s with nonstop and direct de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters to LAX.

Riverside Municipal Airport has been home to Civil Air Patrol Squadron 5 since 2005.

In 2013, FedEx Express, a cargo airline, donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program. The aircraft is on permanent display at the airport and provides a working laboratory for aviation science students. The aircraft, N266FE (cn 21672/1538), is a Boeing 727-233/Adv(F).

Facilities
The airport covers 525 acre and has two runways and one helipad:


 * 9/27: 5,401 x 100 ft. (1,646 x 30 m), asphalt
 * 16/34: 2,850 x 48 ft. (869 x 15 m), asphalt
 * H1: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), asphalt

The runway has ILS, GPS, and VOR approaches.

Should there be plans to expand, the Airport's Master Plan supports lengthening runway 9/27 to 6153 ft. Runway 27 has a Visual Approach Slope Indicator.

The crosswind runway, RWY 16-34, is suited for smaller aircraft. Runway 34 has a Precision Approach Path Indicator.

General aviation
The airport is home to about 100 general aviation aircraft.


 * FBOs:
 * Riverside Air Service
 * Airport businesses
 * Capital Jet Management