KO26 · Lone Pine/Death Valley Airport

LONE PINE, CALIFORNIA · SMALL AIRPORT

3,680

Elevation ft

Runways

4,000

Longest ft · 16/34

36.59N

118.05W

Lone Pine/Death Valley Airport serves Lone Pine, California at 3,680 ft elevation with its longest runway, 16/34, at 4,000 by 60 ft. The figures below are computed from FAA NASR runway data (via OurAirports) and the same rules of thumb JetDesk uses on the airport page in the app; the POH and current NOTAMs are the authority.

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01Runways

Runway	Length × width	Surface	Lighting
16/34	4,000 × 60 ft	asphalt	lit
13/31	2,391 × 90 ft	dirt	unlit

02Density altitude and turboprop runway margins

Standard temperature at 3,680 ft is about 8°C. Every 1,000 ft of density altitude adds roughly 8 percent to a turboprop's takeoff distance and 5 percent to its landing distance. The table uses Piper Meridian book numbers (2,438 ft takeoff and 2,110 ft landing over a 50 ft obstacle at sea level, ISA, max weight) as a reference airplane; heavier turboprops and light jets scale the same way from their own POH figures.

Conditions	Density altitude	Takeoff est.	Landing est.	Landing × 1.5
Standard day (ISA, 8°C)	3,680 ft	3,156 ft	2,498 ft	3,747 ft
Warm day (ISA +10)	4,880 ft	3,390 ft	2,625 ft	3,937 ft
Hot day (ISA +20)	6,080 ft	3,624 ft	2,751 ft	4,127 ft
35°C afternoon	6,963 ft	3,796 ft	2,845 ft	4,267 ft

Planning aid only. On a 35°C afternoon the longest runway (16/34, 4,000 ft) is within 20 percent of the 1.5x landing figure for a Meridian-class turboprop (4,267 ft). Plan hot-day departures for the morning and check the POH. The percentages are a generic rule of thumb applied to one reference airplane, not certified performance data for any specific aircraft, and the runway size categories describe the runway, not your airplane's suitability. Verify with the approved flight manual before every flight.

03Nearby fields with 5,000 ft or more

Useful as alternates, as fuel stops when the price at KO26 is high, or as the longer runway on a hot afternoon.

Airport	Distance	Longest runway
KBIH Eastern Sierra Regional Airport	49 nm N	7,498 ft
KIYK Inyokern Airport	57 nm S	7,100 ft
L72 Trona Airport	58 nm SE	5,910 ft
KPTV Porterville Municipal Airport	59 nm SW	5,960 ft
KBTY Beatty Airport	63 nm E	5,615 ft

04Jet A prices and FBOs at KO26

No public API publishes FBO fuel prices, so JetDesk does not guess. Pilots and crews log the price they actually paid at KO26, the app flags a price stale after two weeks, and the route finder ranks every field within a corridor of your route by net savings after the cost of the extra cycle. Log a price at KO26 or read what a fuel stop actually saves.

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