Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 45 ft / 14 m 5,953 1,814 Code OXR Phone +1 805-382-3022 | Serves Oxnard, California 7/25 5,953 1,814 Asphalt Elevation 14 m | |
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Address 2889 W 5th St, Oxnard, CA 93030, USA Owner Ventura County, California Similar Budget Car Rental, Enterprise Rent‑A‑Car, Oxnard Station, Gold Coast Transit District, Camarillo Airport | ||
Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR, FAA LID: OXR) is a county owned, public airport a mile west of downtown Oxnard, in Ventura County, California. The airport has not had scheduled passenger service since June 8, 2010, when United Express (operated via a code sharing agreement with United Airlines by SkyWest Airlines) ended flights to Los Angeles International Airport. America West Express has also served the airport with nonstop flights to Phoenix in the early-2000s.
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Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 15,961 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008, 12,060 in 2009 and 4,074 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a primary commercial service airport based on enplanements in 2008 (over 10,000 per year). By the time of the next NPIAS report, for 2015-2019, Oxnard Airport had been downgraded to a regional general aviation airport with only 19 enplanements.
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History
Ventura County opened Oxnard Airport in 1934 by clearing a 3,500 ft dirt runway. In the 1930s 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 built a large hangar. In 1939 James McLean opened the Oxnard Flying School with a Piper J-3 Cub and a Kinner 2-seat airplane. Housing was built nearby for instructors and students at the school.
In late 1941, the airport was assigned 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. Ventura County regained control of the airport in 1948, receiving a final quitclaim deed. The state of California issued the airport an operating permit in 1949.
Past airline service
Scheduled airline flights started in 1946 on Southwest Airways Douglas DC-3s on a multi-stop route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Southwest changed its name to Pacific Air Lines which flew Martin 4-0-4s snd Fairchild F-27s to the airport. In 1968 Pacific merged with Bonanza Air Lines and West Coast Airlines to form Air West, soon renamed Hughes Airwest which continued to serve Oxnard with F-27s. In 1968 Cable Commuter Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters flew to LAX.
Hughes Airwest ended service to Oxnard in the early 1970s and was replaced by Golden West Airlines and other commuter carriers. Golden West de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters and Short 330s flew nonstop to Los Angeles (LAX), San Diego and Santa Barbara. Other service included Wings West Beech 99s to Los Angeles and Desert Pacific Airlines Pipers nonstop to San Francisco, Sacramento and Las Vegas. In 1980 Golden Gate Airlines was flying nonstop to Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Monterey, and Santa Barbara and direct to San Francisco.
Oxnard never got scheduled jets, but the airport did have Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias operated by WestAir as United Express flying nonstop to San Francisco in the 1990s. Most service was to LAX with a few flights to Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and other cities. In 1985 Evergreen Airspur (a division of Evergreen International Airlines) de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters were flying to LAX. By the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, two airlines were flying Oxnard-LAX: American Eagle operated by Wings West flying Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners and United Express operated by WestAir flying BAe Jetstream 31s. The United Express service would be replaced by SkyWest Airlines Embraer EMB-120 Brasilias. United Express later ended flights at the airport and Oxnard no longer has airline service.
California Air Shuttle was a commuter airline based at the Oxnard Airport. In 1990, it briefly operated nonstop service with a Swearingen Metro II propjet aircraft between the airport and Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento. This new start-up air carrier quickly went out of business.
Facilities and aircraft
Oxnard Airport covers 216 acres (87 ha) at an elevation of 45 feet (14 m) above mean sea level. Its one runway, 7/25, is 5,953 by 100 feet (1,814 x 30 m) asphalt.
In 2010 the airport had 55,323 aircraft operations, average 151 per day: 92% general aviation, 8% air taxi, and <1% military. 157 aircraft were then based at this airport: 79% single-engine, 17% multi-engine, and 5% helicopter.