California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport
California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport
California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport(IATA: ACV, ICAO: KACV, FAA LID: ACV), also known as Arcata–Eureka Airport and Arcata Airport, is in Humboldt County, California, United States, 8 miles (13 km) north of Arcata and 15 miles (24 km) north of Eureka, in McKinleyville. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a Nonhub primary commercial service airport. The airport is a federally designated port of entry for civil aircraft arriving in the United States. The airport is the site of the command center for and primary facilities of the United States Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay, which provides rescue and law enforcement for the region north of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Location
40.978°N, 124.109°O · 67 m s. n. m. (221 ft)
General data
Runways · 2
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3 Official publication
Approach
Common traffic (CTAF)
Automated weather
Frequencies from the official publication: FAA NASR, AIRAC 01 OCT 2026, checked on Oct 16, 2026. They change with each amendment: not for navigation without checking the current AIP. See the official publication In MHz.
History
The airport was built by the United States Navy during World War II to test defogging systems. It operated in support of the Naval Air Station Alameda as the Arcata Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) and was headquarters for the Eureka section of naval local defense forces for the 12th Naval District.
In December 1947 a Southwest Airways Douglas DC-3 made the world's first blind landing by a scheduled commercial airliner using ground-controlled approach radar, instrument landing system and Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO) oil-burners next to the runway. By the following year the airline had made 1,200 routine instrument landings at the often fog-shrouded airport.
What flies here
From our own logbook: 146 aircraft documented between 2016 and 2025.
Types seen here
Airlines with documented aircraft
Busiest routes from here
A count of our own aircraft profiles, year by year, from the public United States flight records: it reflects what we have documented, not the airport’s total traffic.
Airlines operating here · 3
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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This page was last updated on October 16, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 16). California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (ACV). Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACV
MLA
“California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (ACV).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 16 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACV. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (ACV).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 16, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACV.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport (ACV). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/ACV (Accessed: 18 October 2026).
BibTeX
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