Moffett Federal Airfield

Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) is a medium airport in Mountain View, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KNUQ or IATA code NUQ. It sits in North America.

Moffett Federal Airfield is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 9,197-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 9,197 ft (2,803 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Moffett Federal Airfield sits near sea level at 32 ft.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 3 departing and 4 arriving private-jet legs at KNUQ across the next six months of operator inventory. 3 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KNUQ are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Moffett Federal Airfield, also known as Moffett Field, is a joint civil-military airport located in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County, California, United States, between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale. On November 10, 2014, NASA announced that it would be leasing 1,000 acres (400 ha) of the airfield property to Google for 60 years.