Oxnard Airport

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Oxnard Airport

IATA: OXR - ICAO: KOXR - FAA: OXR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Ventura County
Serves		Oxnard, California
Elevation AMSL		45 ft (13.7 m)
Coordinates		34°12′03″N, 119°12′26″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
7/25	5,953	1,814	Asphalt

Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR, FAA LID: OXR) is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district (CBD) of Oxnard, a city in Ventura County, California, USA. The airport covers 216 acres and has one runway. Although it is very close to Los Angeles, Oxnard is not useful as an alternate airport for many people in the Los Angeles metro-region, because its only destination is Los Angeles International Airport and the average driving time from Oxnard Airport to the Los Angeles County line is close to 40 minutes.

1 History
2 Airport today
3 Facilities
4 Airline and destination
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Ventura County opened Oxnard Airport in 1934 by clearing a 3,500ft dirt runway. In the 1930’s, aviator Howard Hughes erected a tent at the airport to shelter his famous H-1 monoplane racer, which he tested from the dirt strip. In 1938, Ventura County paved the dirt runway and constructed a large hangar to attract more business. The year following, James McLean opened the Oxnard Flying School with a Piper J-3 Cub and a Kinner 2-seat airplane. Housing was constructed nearby to accommodate instructors and students for the school.

In late 1941, war was declared and the operation of Oxnard Airport was handed over to the U.S. Army Air Corps which operated the airport until 1944. The field was then reassigned to the U.S. Navy until the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu could be completed. The Navy moved to NAS Point Mugu in 1945 and the Oxnard Flying School returned to the airport. The County of Ventura officially regained control of the airport from the federal government in 1948 by receiving a final quitclaim deed. The State of California issued the airport an operating permit in 1949. Scheduled airline passenger service was established in 1946 by Southwest Airlines with Douglas DC-3 airplanes. Oxnard Airport has been the only airport in the Ventura County area to support continuous airline passenger service since WWII.^[1]

[edit] Airport today

Today Oxnard Airport is an FAA-towered facility handling approximately 100,000 arrivals and/or departures a year, and is home to over 180 individual aircraft.^[2] As of February 2007, two Fixed Base Operators and two Flight Schools are headquartered at the airfield, and SkyWest (a commuter division of United Airlines) is the only scheduled passenger airline service to operate from Oxnard.^[3]

[edit] Facilities

Aspen Helicopters is a FBO located at the airport, and is also known as the ‘’’Oxnard Jet Center’’’
Signature Flight Support is a BBA-member Oxnard-based FBO.
CP Aviation is one of two flight schools located at the Oxnard airport.
Aviation Pacific is the second of two flight schools located at Oxnard airport.