Reno Tahoe International Airport safety profile
55 recorded occurrences at or near Reno Tahoe International Airport (1985–2025): 28 at the airport, 27 nearby; 9 fatal, 82 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 189 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2016-09-12 (3 fatalities) — 0.9 km
- 2023-09-17 — SIX CAT RACING INC (2 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2016-08-31 — Flying Start Aero (2 fatalities) — 2.5 km
- 2018-05-02 — Thunder Mustang (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2014-04-13 — Sands Helicycle (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2011-09-16 — North American P-51D, James K Leeward (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2008-09-06 — Debus J/Mountain S/Bowes E Debus-Casst-Snoshoo, Erica Simpson (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2025-09-03 — 0.0 km
- 2023-08-29 — Drone America — 0.0 km
- 2021-08-09 — DAVIS RICHARD B — 11.9 km
- 2019-10-20 — 0.0 km
- 2019-09-16 — 0.0 km
Runways
- 17R/35L: 11,001 ft, CON, lighted
- 17L/35R: 9,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 08/26: 6,102 ft, CON, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 11.898 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 17.098 days/year
- Snow: 28.196 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.04% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.