Monterey Bay Academy Airport
CA66 · Watsonville, California · Santa Cruz County · map
Monterey Bay Academy Airport is a private airport, 4 miles west of Watsonville, California, 70 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 2,200 feet of grass.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CA66
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · privately owned
- Elevation
- 70 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- On the chart
- San Francisco sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 16E
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,200 × 50 ft | Grass |
- Runway 10: right-hand traffic pattern
Radio frequencies
| UNICOM | 122.8 |
Aircraft registered in Watsonville from the FAA register
71 aircraft are registered to owners in Watsonville, California: 49 piston singles, 11 helicopters, 3 business jets, 2 turboprops, 2 weight-shift and powered parachutes. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in California.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Enter traffic pattern from ocean side to avoid flying ovr Monterey Bay Academy buildings and horse stables.
- Airfield operations limited to daylight hours.
- In observance of seventh day adventist sabbath, please do not land on airfield from sunset fridays to sunset saturdays.
- Avoid overflying houses located above coast, 3/4 NM sse of the airfield.
- Student solo flights not recommended.
- Ongoing drone (UAS) act from surface to 10000 feet above sea level. Check NOTAMs.
- Flight below 1000 feet above ground level prohibited except in pattern over Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary.
- Ctn regarding agricultural operations, occasional irrigation on grass and people using dirt roads adjacent to runway. Recommended overflying airfield to obs operations adjacent to runway bfr landing. SI approach not advised.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.