Camarillo Airport, is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. 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.
Before 1970, the airport was known as Oxnard Air Force Base.
According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, it is categorized as a reliever airport.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Camarillo Airport is assigned CMA by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned CMA to Cunnamulla Airport in Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia).
Camarillo Airport was the filming location for an episode of the TV series 24.
Camarillo Airport covers an area of 650 acres (263 ha) and contains one runway (8/26) which measures 6,013 x 150 ft (1,833 x 46 m). For 12-month period ending June 5, 2006, the airport had 153,360 aircraft operations, an average of 420 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and <1% military. There are 600 aircraft based at this airport: 84% single engine, 8% multi engine, 5% ultralights, 3% jet aircraft and 1% helicopters. It is an FAA-towered facility and there are three Fixed Base Operators are headquartered at the airfield.
The Waypoint Cafe is a restaurant that is adjacent to the runway on the airport property, which was reopened in March 2009 after being closed for refurbishment.
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 Channel Islands Aviation is a Cessna Pilot Center and a FAA Approved Part 141 Flight School. The FBO is located near the end of Taxiway Alpha and has been at Camarillo since the beginning of the facility as a public use airport in 1976. On behalf of the Channel Islands National Park, CIA provide a year round charter service for hikers and campers to Santa Rosa Island.
Sun Air Jets built in 2005, is a full-service corporate jet FBO facility on the north-end of the airport near the end of the Charlie taxiway.
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