Airports / California / VIS
Visalia Municipal Airport
KVIS / VISVisalia, CaliforniaELEV 295 FT
Google rating
Google reviews
Field elevation
Nearest alternate
Field standing
27 nm
To the nearest alternate
Lemoore Naval Air Station (Reeves Field) Airport (NLC) — 2 fields within 50 nm.
Overview
Visalia Municipal Airport, listed as KVIS / VIS, is a mid-sized airport in Visalia, California. The field lies at an elevation of 295 feet. The field has no airline schedules, which keeps it focused on private and general aviation flying.
VIS has no resident charter fleet; trips here are typically flown by operators repositioning from surrounding airports. Useful alternates include Lemoore Naval Air Station (Reeves Field) Airport (NLC, 27 nm), Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT, 32 nm), and Meadows Field (BFL, 56 nm).
Quotes for flights out of VIS vary with aircraft type, repositioning, and schedule flexibility. Use the cost estimator to model a trip from VIS, or browse verified operators serving the area.
What fliers highlight
Terminal & facilities
2/5 reviews“Easily located, clean and open to traffic.”
Michael Lewis5★ on Google
Staff & service
2/5 reviews“We need someone to step up and provide service, even if it is just during the produce season to fly produce to LAX, SFO, OAK or SAN.”
Tomas “Sigma” Marin IV5★ on Google
Themes counted by keyword across Google review texts for Visalia Municipal Airport — every quote is verbatim from a real review.
Field capability
ICAO
KVIS
IATA
VIS
FAA / Local
VIS
Elevation
295 ft
Coordinates
36.3187° N · 119.3930° W
Airspace
E · EchoClass E — EchoControlled airspace reaches the surface for instrument approaches, but there is no control tower on the field.Source: FAA NASR class airspace
Size
Medium
Scheduled svc
No
Elevation vs CA fields
state range -210–7,135 ft
At 295 ft, VIS sits lower than 50% of the 156 California fields on the register.
Access & alternates
Closest alternate fields by great-circle distance — every listing links to its own field brief.
- 27nmNLCLemoore Naval Air Station (Reeves Field) AirportLemoore
- 32nmFATFresno Yosemite International AirportFresno
- 56nmBFLMeadows FieldBakersfield
- 63nmKL45Bakersfield International AirportBakersfield
- 71nmPRBPaso Robles Municipal AirportPaso Robles
- 79nmMCEMerced Regional Macready FieldMerced
Location
Open the full mapKVIS · Visalia Municipal Airport · Visalia, CA
From the ramp
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