Buchanan Field (CCR) is a medium sized, primarily general and business aviation airport located in the city of Concord, CA, just northeast of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay area. It’s location just outside the SFO Class Bravo airspace makes it an attractive alternative to pilots visiting the area, and it is home to no less than three major flight schools. The mix of itinerant, student, and locally based pilots and aircraft, makes CCR a challenging airport for both controllers and pilots. The airport configuration consists of two sets of parallel runways with staggered thresholds. As with any airport with similar runway configurations, wrong surface arrival and departures have occurred. There are several full-length parallel taxiways that have led to some confusion as well. Pilots inbound from the north have sometimes confused Napa County Airport with Buchanan. While the runway configuration is not exactly the same, the airports are close enough to occasionally cause confusion. This video prepares pilots for other challenges, runway configurations and hot spots at CCR.
Visit www.faa.gov/ccr for supplemental "pilot handbook" information on this airport including airport-specific cautions, information local controllers want pilots to know, airport communications, airspace details and other preflight planning resources.
To address wrong surface events where an aircraft lines up to or lands on the incorrect runway, taxiway, or airport, the FAA released Arrival Alert Notices (AAN) at various airports with a history of misalignment risk. View the CCR Arrival Alert Notice here: www.faa.gov/airports/runway_s...
The FAA's From the Flight Deck video series uses cockpit-mounted cameras to capture runway and taxiway footage and combines them with diagrams and visual graphics to clearly identify hot spots and other safety-sensitive items. Learn more at www.faa.gov/FromTheFlightDeck
This video is informational only and does not replace the pilot’s responsibility to conduct required pre-flight planning in accordance with FAR 91.103.