MC Clellan-Palomar Airport

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 2

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

• Runway 06: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 297 ft, 4,600 ft available for landing
• Runway 24: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern

Radio frequencies

Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 760-795-2628.

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Other fields with jet fuel nearby: Bob Maxwell Memorial Airfield (6 nm northwest), Ramona Airport (19 nm east), Montgomery-Gibbs Executive (20 nm south).

The FAA's file records what is sold and done at the field, as the airport manager reports it, not who sells it or the price; fuel sellers (FBOs) are not named in any public file. Airports selling jet fuel in California · avgas.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

• When the control tower closed activate high-intensity runway lights runway 06/24, PAPI runways 06 and 24, approach lights (MALSR) runway 24 - the common traffic frequency.
• Prior permission required only - no military training - contract military only.
• Pattern altitude 672 above ground level helicopters; 1172 above ground level small aircraft; 1672 above ground level large aircraft.
• Standard heliport markings.
• Multiple approaches by large aircraft (including large helicopter) not authorized.
• No jet aircraft training due to noise abatement and traffic congestion.
• Extensive bird activity in vicinity especially in spring.
• Runway 24 is calm wind runway.
• Power lines 2 miles west and southwest.
• Voluntary curfew: jets 10:00 pm to 7:00 am local, props 12:00 am to 6:00 am local, emergency, lifeguard, and law enforcement excepted.
• Request jets fly the ILS approach.
• Ltd transient tie down space on public ramp.

Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024

The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.

Takeoffs and landings a year about 171,039, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)

Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates. How this compares nationally: Airports by the numbers.

Aircraft registered in Carlsbad from the FAA register

141 aircraft are registered to owners in Carlsbad, California: 114 piston singles, 13 business jets, 5 turboprops, 4 piston twins, 2 helicopters. 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, not named (the site's policy at this time). All aircraft registered in California.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Fuel and service companies in Carlsbad, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

• Anderson Aviation Services INC
• Hangar One Avionics INC Hangar One is an FAA Part 145 certified avionics and maintenance service center based in Carlsbad, California, serving fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

• Palomar Aviation LLC 5 aircraft · Carlsbad Palomar Aviation is a flight training center and aircraft rental operator based at Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California.
• North County Flight Training INC 4 aircraft · Carlsbad North County Flight Training is a flight school based at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California.
• Stem Aviation Academy 2 aircraft · Carlsbad STEM Aviation Academy is a non-profit public benefit corporation (501c3) based in Carlsbad, California, that provides aviation education and safety training to middle and high school students, with a focus on inspiring youth from underrepre
• P S C Flyers 1 aircraft · Cardiff By the Sea, 7 miles away
• Blue Sky Aero Club INC 1 aircraft · Escondido, 12 miles away

Charter operators and airlines based in Carlsbad:

• Aerial Solutions II LLC 2 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in Carlsbad:

• Civic Helicopters INC
• Hangar One Avionics INC Hangar One is an FAA Part 145 certified avionics and maintenance service center based in Carlsbad, California, serving fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
• Hangar One of California INC
• Latitude 33 Aviation LLC
• Lea INC
• Pacific Coast Enterprises INC San Diego Aircraft Interiors, Inc manufactures commercial aircraft interiors, military and industrial sewn goods, and leather airline seats.
• Viasat INC
• Walts Avionics INC

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 45 since 1982, 8 fatal

Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English. The country as a whole: Where accidents happen.

Nearby within 30 nautical miles