Kapalua Airport
JHM · PHJH · Lahaina, Hawaii · Maui County · map
Kapalua Airport is a private airport owned by the State of Hawaii Airports Division, 5 miles northwest of Lahaina, Hawaii, 256 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 02/20, is 3,000 feet of asphalt.
Private use: permission from the owner is required before landing here.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA JHM · ICAO PHJH
- Kind
- Airport · private use, permission required · publicly owned
- Owner
- State of Hawaii Airports Division
- Elevation
- 256 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Hawaiian Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1987
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/20 | 3,000 × 100 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 20: right-hand traffic pattern, tree 90 ft high 3,500 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.7 | |
| Jhm and aWOS-3PT | 118.525 | |
| Mount Haleakala Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 119.3 |
Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 808-665-6101.
Aircraft registered in Lahaina from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Lahaina, Hawaii: 4 business jets, 1 piston single. 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 Hawaii.
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
- VFR,private use only; traffic ptrns established to avoid conflict with kaanopali airport.
- Rescue and firefighting (ARFF) hours: 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- No helicopter operations permitted.
- No jet powered aircraft allowed.
- No practice and training flights permitted.
- Special noise level standards for aircraft oper at airport.
- Restriction on number of daily flights depending on aircraft capacity and size.
- Rapidly rising terrain up to 300 feet above sea level along the full length of runway 02/20 approx 160 feet east of centerline.
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.