Truckee Tahoe Airport (TKF) Safety Profile: Incident History & Data

What happens most

By year

20261 (1 fatal)
20241 (1 fatal)
20231 (0 fatal)
20213 (2 fatal)
20191 (0 fatal)
20181 (1 fatal)
20171 (0 fatal)
20151 (0 fatal)
20143 (1 fatal)
20132 (0 fatal)
20122 (1 fatal)
20112 (0 fatal)
20103 (1 fatal)
20094 (0 fatal)
20087 (1 fatal)
20051 (1 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown15
Climb8
Approach5
Landing4
Takeoff2

Notable investigated occurrences

2024-03-31 — Daher TBM 700, AVRAM ENTERPRISES LLC (2 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2018-07-17 (2 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2010-06-17 — Bernhard Vans RV8 (2 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2026-03-23 (1 fatalities) — 18.3 km
2021-06-15 — Mountain Lion Aviation (1 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2014-03-03 — FARNELL R RICHARD TRUSTEE (1 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2012-08-02 — UNGAR JAMES R (1 fatalities) — 0.2 km
2008-08-08 — Advantage Aviation Inc. (1 fatalities) — 13.4 km
2021-05-12 — TECNAM P2010 LLC — 0.2 km
2019-01-29 — 0.2 km
2017-11-30 — TUMBLEWEED LEASING CO INC — 0.2 km
2015-09-01 — 0.2 km

Runways

11/29: 7,001 ft, ASP, lighted
02/20: 4,650 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 114.484 days/year
Thunderstorms: 24.497 days/year
Snow: 60.692 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.081% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0.025% 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.