Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County

Came here to take a ride in a small plane. It’s a quiet airport. Safe. Seems like a nice place to study aviation.

Kccr Concord is also a great Bay Area airport. I would think it better for a citation. I fly an RV9A so San Jose is expensive But Reid Hillview is sort of interesting flying over the bowl of the Calveras reservoir over the ridge down along the highway. The Rv climbs well so up and over the ridge and outta there. If one stays more to the East up over the hills is the white distinctive dome of the Mt Lick observatory fly past there near there stay East of the Anderson Lake the when U pass South County airport u R beyond the San Jose class C and u can fly over to Watsonville. Or more South to Monterey or Salinas

This is a great airport to take kids for plane watching! Park in the main lot in front of the terminal (it’s free) and just walk straight thru the building. Outside in back are picnic tables under shady trees, and the lawned area is securely fenced in (an iron rail fence, not chain link). The runways are right in front of you! The restrooms in the terminal were very clean, and the staff was nice and accommodating. We weren’t made to feel like interlopers or trespassers at all. One staff member gave my son a balsa wood airplane kit, and a woman working the information desk provided me with a map of the grounds. The map was helpful because the terminal and picnic tables are toward the end of the runways (where the planes mostly just taxi), so if you want to be directly in front of where the take-​offs happen, you’ll need to follow Swift Avenue (sort of a frontage road for Capitol) around to a dogleg just before Tully Road. Unfortunately, that stretch of road runs along a barren field, and there are no shade trees or places to sit. Also, the rest of the complex is hemmed in by a chain link fence, and there’s a gaping hole in the link right where we stopped the car to watch. My four year old son tried to stick his head thru it and I worried he’d scalp a new part in his hair. But he said he likes this airport better than the field on Coleman Avenue where we watch the jets at Mineta. He’s suddenly all about propellor planes and this was a very fun, entertaining day!

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I have been flying out of this airport, now, for a little over fourteen years. I continue teaching out of this airport as a flight instructor. Again, it is a great place for a student to learn and a truly ideal platform for any flight instructor to train a student in.
Come by Trade Winds where I currently teach and say ‘hi’! :) Perhaps book your first demo flight! Remember that a mile of road will only take you a mile, but a mile of runway can take you, anywhere! :) Come on down and be part of the dream of flight! :)

Come fly with me. Reid Hillview Airport is that small airport that supports another international airport in San Jose California. This airport is mostly for small planes. They have an enterprise Rent-​A-​Car store that also rents out cars if you fly in and need to drive around in San Jose.
The airport is open till about 1 o’clock in the morning. It’s located near Eastridge Mall San Jose. This airport appears to be well-​maintained. and to my knowledge there have been no major accidents here.
If you own a small plane and need to fly into San Jose, Reed Hillview Airport would be your Best choice for a safe landing.
Oh by the way, if you own a Learjet and you’re well off give me a call I’ll show you around my my neck of the woods. When you check in to Reid Hillview Airport, tell them Karen sent you

Eric Peterson was very nice and answered all my questions. Nice clean premises.

I used to despise this airport as a kid, because I remember the planes used to fly super low over my house early in the morning all the time and would wake me up. However, now that I live in Downtown SJ, this isn’t an issue anymore. My friend Scuba called me last minute to join him and his girlfriend’s cousin, who has a pilot’s license, on a single engine plane flight. I had never ridden in a small plane and was honestly a little scared, because god knows what horrible things can go wrong in the sky with those contraptions. Luckily, Alex the pilot ensured me he knew what he was doing and even invited me to ride shot gun with him. Being co-​pilot was awesome, because as we were flying over San Jose he let me take over the plane for a bit as we were flying to a super small landing area in Morgan Hill. Overall, this airport is awesome to fly out of and into with those small engined planes.

Pretty mad at thsi airport, they dotn have anyone who specializes in skywriting. Whaaaaack. I guess for everythign its cool but didnt ask about that. Its a big place.

I learned at this airport on how to fly a single engine Cessna. For a beginner this place is a great place to fly into. It’s far from everything else. It’s easy to recognize, winds are relatively calm here with a big fat landing field.