Palo Alto Airport
Palo Alto: a city-owned single runway on the bay edge of Silicon Valley, minutes from Stanford.
The runway at Palo Alto is short. Palo Alto Airport is on the bay edge of Silicon Valley, about 10 miles from the center of the tech region and minutes from Stanford, and the city owns it. One runway, flying clubs, light aircraft, and the occasional turboprop.
What lands here
PAO takes piston aircraft and turboprops. The runway is too short for jets, so a charter out of Palo Alto is a smaller airplane, and the reason to take it is the 10 miles between the ramp and the center of Silicon Valley.
Since the 1930s
The field has been part of Peninsula flying since the 1930s. Some of the country's longest-running flying clubs are based here, the Stanford Flying Club among them, founded in 1930. It is still a general-aviation reliever on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the country.
FBO and history details were checked mid-2026 against the airport's and operators' own published information. Tenants change, so confirm the departure terminal with your operator.
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