Jack Northrop Fld/Hawthorne Municipal
HHR · KHHR · Hawthorne, California · Los Angeles County · map
Jack Northrop Fld/Hawthorne Municipal is a public-use airport owned by the City of Hawthorne, 1 mile east of Hawthorne, California, 66 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 4,884 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA HHR · ICAO KHHR
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of Hawthorne
- Elevation
- 66 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 1,100 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Attended
- M to F, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm; Saturday, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm; Sunday, 6:00 am to 10:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1942
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 4,884 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 07: VASI, two boxes on the right, right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 905 ft, 3,762 ft available for landing, road 13 ft high 200 ft from the end
- Runway 25: LOCALIZER, VASI, four boxes on the right, omnidirectional approach lights (ODALS), threshold displaced 460 ft, 4,194 ft available for landing, pole 23 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 121.1 | Hawthorne |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) | 118.4 | Hawthorne |
| Ground | 125.1 | Hawthorne |
| Approach · Departure 146-245 hhr | 124.3 | Hawthorne · Reference is to hhr airport. |
| Approach 069-145 lax | 124.9 | Hawthorne |
| Approach 246-342 lax | 125.2 | Hawthorne |
| Approach arriving from headings 343 to 068 | 128.5 | Hawthorne |
| Irnmn and star · Rydrr and star | 124.5 | Hawthorne |
| Emmln and star | 127.0 | Hawthorne |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 310-973-8930.
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Aircraft registered in Hawthorne from the FAA register
34 aircraft are registered to owners in Hawthorne, California: 19 piston singles, 8 turboprops, 4 airliners and large jets, 2 business jets, 1 piston twin. 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 · 25 since 1982, 5 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
- When the control tower closed activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 07/25 and odals runway 25 - the common traffic frequency.
- Pattern altitude for turbine and high per aircraft 1600 (1534), light aircraft 1100 (1034), helicopters 700 (634).
- Localizer at runway end. Street at 110 feet from runway end 07 +37 feet pole 100 feet from east or 250 feet right; +10 feet building 100 feet from east or 200 feet right.
- +8 feet blast fence left at 70 feet on centerline; +23 feet light standard at 110 feet; street at 110 feet from runway end 25; 500 feet left and right of centerline; +6 feet fence left at 105 feet from eor 500 feet left and right of centerline.
- Approach ratio 50:1 to displaced threshold; approach ratio to displaced threshold over +12 feet hangar -L 0 feet from displaced threshold 225 feet left 0:1.
- Approach ratio 28:1 to displaced thld; approach ratio to displaced thld over +15 feet road 0 feet from displaced thld 150 feet right 0:1.
- <obstruction PT 77: hngrs, power lines, BLDG-ANT on runway 07; poles and terminal on runway 25.
- Be alert to 8 feet blast fence aer 25.
- (E81) north edge of north taxiway unlighted; west 1000' of south taxiway unlighted.
- Numerous flocks of birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Tgl, stop and go landing and low approach operations for all aircraft inclg helicopters ltd to 10:00 am to 5:00 pm daily.
- No pattern operations, no TAXI-BACK operations MON-FRI 10:00 pm to 8:00 am, SAT-SUN 10:00 pm to 10:00 am.
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.