March Air Reserve Base

ICAO KRIV33.8807°N 117.2590°W1,536 ft / 468 mMedium airport

Marchafb-06june2002 — United States Geological Survey (USGS) · Public domain · Commons

March Air Reserve Base (IATA: RIV, ICAO: KRIV) is a medium airport in Riverside, California, United States. It opened in 1917. It has 2 runways; the longest is 13,302 ft (4,054 m). It is operated by United States Air Force. In 2024 it handled 3 thousand passengers.

Timeline

4 events · 1917–1996

1917

OpenedMarch Air Reserve Base opens.

26 FEB 1918

RenamedRenamed Alessandro Field.

20 MAR 1918

RenamedRenamed March Field.

01 APR 1996

RenamedRenamed March Air Reserve Base.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF

14/32149° / 329° · LIT

LENGTH13,302 ft4,054 mWIDTH200 ft61 mSURFACEConcrete

12/30135° / 315°

LENGTH3,061 ft933 mWIDTH100 ft31 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2018–2024

11K

12K

18192021222324

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round5

BOIBoise Air Terminal/Gowen FieldUnited States · Amazon Air1,080 km671 mi CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · Amazon Air3,311 km2,057 mi BWIBaltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall AirportUnited States · Amazon Air3,644 km2,264 mi ABELehigh Valley International AirportUnited States · Amazon Air3,740 km2,324 mi HNLDaniel K. Inouye International AirportUnited States · Amazon Air4,212 km2,617 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RIV. From the Wikipedia article “March Air Reserve Base” (revision of 16 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers3K (2024)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M=3,023of 3,974 · #801 North America · #579 US Longest runway13,302 ft4,054 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#89of 29,823 · #33 North America · #28 US Elevation1,536 ft468 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=11,733of 43,341 · =5,089 North America · =3,863 US AgeOpened 19172026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=136of 15,079 · =13 North America · =12 US Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

9 channels

A/DAPP/DEP119.250

ATISATIS134.750

GCCDGND/CLNC DEL121.750

OPSANG OPS29.370

PMSVPMSV METRO23.980

POSTCOMD POST31.100

PTDPTD37.220

RDORIVERSIDE RDO113.400

TWRTWR127.650