Van Nuys Airport safety profile
32 recorded occurrences at or near Van Nuys Airport (1985–2025): 16 at the airport, 16 nearby; 6 fatal, 9 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 252 runway incursions at this airport, including 4 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2023-08-02 — Czech Sport Aircraft SportCruiser, Aviators Flight Academy (2 fatalities) — 0.7 km
- 2020-09-11 (2 fatalities) — 2.0 km
- 2019-06-15 — Nanchang CJ6 (1 fatalities) — 14.1 km
- 2016-08-02 — Arion Aircraft Lightning LS-1 (1 fatalities) — 0.0 km
- 2015-01-09 — Lancair 320 (1 fatalities) — 0.5 km
- 2025-01-09 — Gouvernement du Québec, Service aérien gouvernemen — 0.0 km
- 2024-11-14 — FIRST TAKE AVIATION LLC — 4.4 km
- 2023-04-28 — AGGREGATE MATERIAL SERVICES LLC — 0.0 km
- 2022-04-02 — 0.0 km
- 2020-01-02 — EXECUTIVE CHARTERS INC — 0.0 km
- 2019-07-23 — Mh Aviation Inc — 0.0 km
- 2018-09-30 — Airfleet Holdings Llc. — 0.0 km
Runways
- 16R/34L: 8,001 ft, ASP, lighted
- 16L/34R: 4,013 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 11.546 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 4.317 days/year
- Snow: 0.1 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.025% 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.