Camarillo Airport

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Camarillo Airport

IATA: none - ICAO: KCMA - FAA: CMA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		County of Ventura
Serves		Camarillo, California
Elevation AMSL		75 ft (22.9 m)
Coordinates		34°12′49.51″N, 119°05′39.57″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
8/26	6,010	1,832	Asphalt/Concrete

Camarillo Airport (ICAO: KCMA, FAA LID: CMA) is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Camarillo, in Ventura County, California, USA. It is roughly equidistant from Los Angeles, CA and Santa Barbara, CA although it is inland. The airport has one runway and exclusively serves privately-operated general aviation and executive aircraft with no scheduled commercial service.

1 History
2 Airport Today
3 Airport Identification
4 Facilities
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Camarillo Airport was originally established in 1942 when the California State Highway Department constructed an auxiliary landing field with a 5,000 ft runway, which was later extended to 8,000 ft in 1951 to accommodate what by then had developed into Oxnard Air Force Base. The airport runway was further extended in 1959 to accommodate jet fighter aircraft such as the Northrop F-89 and McDonnell-Douglas F-101B, used as part of the Los Angeles area Air Defense network.^{[citation needed]} In 1969, Oxnard AFB was deactivated and the base became surplus property.

In the years following, the County of Ventura actively pursued the acquisition of the former military base property from the Department of Defense for commercial airport use, opposed primarily by local residents concerned about the noise of growing commercial traffic. In 1976 the transfer of the airport was finally approved (provided the runway length was shortened to 5,000ft) and by 1985, was entirely managed by the Ventura County Department of Airports.^[1]

[edit] Airport Today

Today Camarillo Airport is an FAA-towered facility handling approximately 180,000 arrivals and/or departures a year, and is home to over 500 individual aircraft. As of February 2006, three Fixed Base Operators are headquartered at the airfield.

[edit] Airport Identification

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Camarillo Airport is assigned CMA^[2] by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned CMA to Cunnamulla Airport in Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia^[3]). The airport's ICAO identifier is KCMA.^[4]

[edit] Facilities

The Waypoint Cafe is a restaurant that is adjacent the runway on the airport property.
Civil Air Patrol Camarillo Composite Squadron 61 is based at this airfield, located near Sky Blue Air, at the east end of the airport.
Channel Islands Aviation is a FBO located near the end of the Alpha taxiway, and has been a fixture at Camarillo Airport since the beginnings of the facility as a public-use airport.
Sun Air Jets recently completed construction (2005) of a full-service corporate jet FBO facility on the north-end of the airport near the end of the Charlie taxiway.
Western Cardinal is a Camarillo-based FBO located between the Golf 1 and Golf 2 taxiways, and built as the second major FBO to serve the airport in the 1980’s.

The Ventura County Fire and Police Departments each support large, separate facilities at opposite ends of the field to support new recruit and recurring refreshment training.