Montgomery-Gibbs Executive
MYF · KMYF · San Diego, California · San Diego County · map
Montgomery-Gibbs Executive is a public-use airport owned by the City of San Diego, 6 miles north of San Diego, California, 427 feet above sea level. It has 4 runways; the longest, 10L/28R, is 4,598 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower, fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive, UL94 unleaded avgas) and about 412 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 374,088 takeoffs and landings a year. About 72 passengers boarded flights here in the FAA's fiscal year 2024.
Weather right now KMYF · observed 12:53 pm PDT (19:53 UTC), 31 minutes ago
MVFR flyable but watch the ceiling and visibility
- Wind from the southwest (230°) at 10 knots
- Visibility 8 miles
- Sky: a broken layer at 2,500 feet, overcast at 3,200 feet
- Temperature 68°F (20°C), dew point 58°F (14°C)
- Altimeter 29.78 inHg
No terminal forecast is issued for this station. The nearest forecast is usually at the closest larger airport.
The codes as issued (METAR and TAF)
METAR KMYF 111953Z 23010KT 8SM BKN025 OVC032 20/14 A2978 RMK AO2 SLP081 T02000144
From the National Weather Service's aviation weather service, refreshed every few minutes; times are local to the airport with UTC in brackets. For a flight, get your briefing from Flight Service or an approved provider.
Flight planning warnings, pilot reports, winds aloft, restrictions · for planning, not a briefing
1 warning in force over this field:
- AIRMET SIERRA 6E: mountains obscured by cloud (due to mountains obscured by clouds, precipitation, mist).
Winds aloft at the nearest forecast point (SAN, 6 nm southwest), for use 14:00–21:00 UTC: 3,000 ft: 220° at 18 kt; 6,000 ft: 210° at 31 kt, 9 °C; 9,000 ft: 220° at 30 kt, 5 °C; 12,000 ft: 220° at 28 kt, 0 °C; 18,000 ft: 220° at 21 kt, -12 °C.
No temporary flight restriction within 50 nautical miles.
The full picture: all warnings and reports, winds to 39,000 ft, radar and forecast charts
From the government's aviation weather service and the FAA's restriction list, refreshed every few minutes. This is for planning; the legal briefing comes from Flight Service or the FAA's own tools. Ordinary notices to air missions (closed runways, lights out) are not shown: the FAA's notice search is not open to sites like this one at this time.
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The airport
- Codes
- FAA MYF · ICAO KMYF
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- City of San Diego
- Elevation
- 427 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 9:00 pm
- Attended
- M to S, 7:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel and services
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive, UL94 unleaded avgas; the services card below
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- July 1940
Runways 4
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10L/28R | 4,598 × 150 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
| 10R/28L | 3,401 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | |
| 05/23 | 3,400 × 75 ft | Asph-trtd, excellent | |
| H1 | 48 × 48 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 10L: PAPI, four lights on the left
- Runway 28R: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 1,199 ft
- Runway 10R: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 05: threshold displaced 390 ft
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower All runways, except runway 28R btw 1800-0200Z++ | 119.2 | Montgomery |
| UNICOM | 123.075 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Myf and automated weather (ASOS) | 126.9 | Montgomery |
| Clearance delivery | 123.725 | Montgomery |
| Ground | 118.225 | Montgomery |
| Tower Runway 28R btw 1800-0200Z++ | 125.7 | Montgomery |
| Approach · Class B airspace 062-109 San 14,000 feet and below | 124.35 | Montgomery |
| Class B airspace · Departure procedure (CWARD) · Departure 225-293 San 17,000 feet and below | 119.6 | Montgomery |
| Class B airspace 029-061 San 14,000 feet and below; 333-028 San 7,000 FT-11,000 feet | 132.2 | Montgomery |
| Montgomery and rco | 122.2 | Montgomery · Communications provided by San Diego radio on frequency 122.2 (Montgomery rco). |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 858-576-4337.
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Based aircraft, as a table
| aircraft | |
|---|---|
| single-engine | 329 |
| multi-engine | 43 |
| jets | 14 |
| helicopters | 23 |
| other | 3 |
Takeoffs and landings a year about 374,088, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Takeoffs and landings, as a table
| a year | |
|---|---|
| airline | 1 |
| air taxi and commuter | 6,048 |
| general aviation, travelling | 112,116 |
| general aviation, local | 254,428 |
| military | 1,495 |
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.
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
Colours show wind speed, the moving lines its direction; drag the time bar for the coming days. Map and forecast by Windy.com.
Aircraft registered in San Diego from the FAA register
683 aircraft are registered to owners in San Diego, California: 476 piston singles, 46 drones, 33 piston twins, 32 business jets, 31 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.
Fuel and services as reported to the FAA
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas, Jet A, Jet A with additive, UL94 unleaded avgas
- Repairs
- airframe and engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tie-downs
- Oxygen
- bottled oxygen (low-pressure), bulk oxygen (high-pressure)
- Also here
- air freight, air ambulance, avionics, cargo handling, charter flights, flight instruction, aircraft rental, aircraft sales, aerial surveying
Other fields with jet fuel nearby: San Diego International (6 nm southwest), Gillespie Field (8 nm east), Brown Field Municipal (17 nm southeast).
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.
Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register
Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes in San Diego, by their names on the register:
- Coast Flight Training and Management INC 39 aircraft
- San Diego Community College District 7 aircraft The San Diego Community College District operates three credit colleges (San Diego City College, Mesa College, and San Diego Miramar College) and seven campuses of San Diego College of Continuing Education, serving approximately 90,000 stud
- Coast Flight Training & Management INC 3 aircraft
- Aa5A Flyers 1 aircraft Plus One Flyers is a member-oriented, non-profit flying club based in San Diego County, California.
- Armed Forces Aero Club 1 aircraft Armed Forces Aero Club is a nonprofit flying club in San Diego, California, organized for social and recreational flying.
- Armed Forces Aero Club INC 1 aircraft Armed Forces Aero Club is a nonprofit flying club in San Diego, California, organized for social and recreational flying purposes.
- Baja Flyers CORP INC 1 aircraft
- Baja Flyers INC 1 aircraft Plus One Flyers is a member-oriented, non-profit flying club based in San Diego County, California.
Charter operators and airlines based in San Diego:
- Latitude 33 Aviation, LLC 16 aircraft on the certificate
- Shier Aviation Corp 6 aircraft on the certificate
- Raven Helicopters, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate
- San Diego Air Service, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate
Repair stations in San Diego:
- Amentum Services, INC
- Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation
- Coast Aviation Services
- Delta Group Electronics INC Delta Group Electronics is an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider with FAA Part 145 repair station certification.
- Flame Spray INC
- Gibbs Service Center INC Aircraft Service Center SD is a FAA Part 145 repair station in San Diego providing aircraft maintenance, avionics service, and repairs.
- Hm Aeronautics INC Montgomery Avionics and Aircraft Services is a repair station in San Diego, California that provides pitot/static certifications, avionics troubleshooting and installation, and light maintenance for LSA and experimental aircraft.
- Kontron America INC
- Pacific Aircraft Maintenance
- Safran Power Units San Diego LLC
- Shier Aviation CORP Corporate Helicopters is a helicopter operator based in San Diego, California, offering charter flights, tours, flight training, aerial filming and photography, helicopter sales, utility operations, and maintenance services throughout South
Companies in the same town as this airport; not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.
Examiners and inspectors nearby designated by the FAA · within 50 nautical miles
18 pilot examiners (the FAA's designated pilot examiners, who give the practical tests for pilot certificates) are based within 50 nautical miles: 18 for private pilot, 17 for commercial and instrument, 9 for airline transport pilot, 13 for flight instructor, 4 for sport pilot; 17 for airplanes, 11 for multi-engine airplanes, 1 for helicopters, 1 for gliders. Also nearby: 2 sport aviation examiners, 20 aviation medical examiners, 3 mechanic examiners, 1 airworthiness representative (maintenance), 4 airworthiness representatives (manufacturing), 6 engineering representatives, 1 parachute rigger examiner, 10 training center evaluators, 2 training center examiners, 10 administrative pilot examiners.
- David William Leonard private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (619) 274-0804 · dleonard8765@gmail.com
- Gregory Michael Madariaga private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (818) 402-4860 · global9065@yahoo.com
- Jay Eugene Brentzel private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (619) 341-0320 · jaybrentzel@gmail.com
- John Warren Hardy private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (858) 722-2571 · jhardy1332@icloud.com
- Mary Adene Schu private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, sport pilot; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · Coast flight training · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (541) 390-3980 · maryschuaviation@gmail.com
- Ronald Ray Greathouse private pilot, commercial and instrument, flight instructor; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (619) 992-7030 · bigsurprise3@hotmail.com
- Scott Meade Worthington private pilot, commercial and instrument, airline transport pilot, flight instructor, instrument instructor, instructor renewals, military competency, ground instructor, foreign pilot certificates; airplanes, multi-engine airplanes · SAN FSDO · San Diego, CA (0 nm) · (760) 420-2035 · swsix22@gmail.com
- Alejandro Silva private pilot; airplanes · Provectus Aviation Unlimited, LLC · El Cajon, CA (9 nm) · (619) 504-9129 · aboveall619@gmail.com
All 77 nearby, by kind, with contact details
What each kind does
- DPE: Designated Pilot Examiner: gives the practical tests (checkrides) for pilot certificates and ratings.
- SAE: Sport Aviation Examiner: gives the tests for sport pilot certificates and light-sport aircraft.
- AME: Aviation Medical Examiner: a doctor who issues the medical certificates pilots must hold.
- DME: Designated Mechanic Examiner: tests candidates for the mechanic certificate (airframe and powerplant).
- DAR-T: Designated Airworthiness Representative, maintenance: issues airworthiness certificates and approvals for aircraft in service.
- DAR-F: Designated Airworthiness Representative, manufacturing: issues airworthiness certificates for newly built aircraft and parts.
- DER-T: Designated Engineering Representative: approves engineering data for repairs and alterations on the FAA's behalf.
- DPRE: Designated Parachute Rigger Examiner: tests candidates for the parachute rigger certificate.
- TCE: Training Center Evaluator: gives tests at a simulator training center.
- DCTO-E: Designee at a certificated training organisation.
- Admin-PE: Administrative Pilot Examiner: handles certificate paperwork rather than flight tests.
Designees are listed with the name and contact details the FAA publishes for them on its designee locator (read October 10, 2026): the FAA lists them so that pilots, mechanics and companies can find them. Private individuals are not named, the site's policy at this time. A designee who would rather not appear here can ask us through the contact address on the About page. Each designee is placed at the main public airport of the town the FAA lists (or the nearest one to its zip code), so "nearby" means the town, not an exact address. All examiners by state.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 85 since 1982, 15 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
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out
- Air traffic control control. When the control tower closed activate PAPI runway 10L and 28R; approach lights (MALSR) runway 28R - the common traffic frequency, medium-intensity runway lights runway 10L/28R oper continuously.
- Pattern altitude runways 10R/28L, 10L/28R, and 05/23 - multi eng/turbo pwrd 1600 feet; sngl eng 1000 feet.
- 50:1 approach slope to displaced thld.
- Be alert to military jet aircraft in the vicinity of of airport and 4.7 NM northwest of airport bearing 312 in the vicinity of mission bay vortac.
- Extrm noise sensitive areas west and south of airport. Noise monitoring in effect. Maximum noise lmt 11:30 pm to 6:30 am 70 DB over residential areas. Maximum noise lmt 6:30 am to 11:30 pm 88 DB.
- Be alert birds on and in the vicinity of airport; coyote activity on runways and taxiways.
- Be alert hvy aircraft activity in the vicinity of lake murray and MT soledad. Pilots are urged to be vigilant for other aircraft in these areas and to contact the tower early enough for timely traffic advisories if proceding east bound advise tower of destination airport.
- Simulated engine failures are prohibited over residential areas. No jet touch and go operations.
- Aircraft with high noise levels are requested to use runway 10L/28R
- Landing fees for operations by NON-BASED part 91 and part 135 certified aircraft.
- Taxiway K rstrd to wingspan no greater than 58 feet.
- No aircraft ovr 20,000 pounds on taxiway J rstrd by the FBO (fixed-base operator).
Connections how this airport links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft registered in San Diego 683 aircraft · 476 piston singles, 46 drones, 33 piston twins
- Firestorm Labs INC 34 aircraft in town
- Coast Flight Training and Management INC 28 aircraft in town
- Freedom Flight Works INC 15 aircraft in town
- First Flight CORP 9 aircraft in town
- Latitude 33 Aviation, LLC 16 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Shier Aviation Corp 6 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Raven Helicopters, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- San Diego Air Service, Inc. 1 aircraft on the certificate · charter operator
- Coast Flight Training and Management INC 39 aircraft · flight school
- San Diego Community College District 7 aircraft · university or college with a flight programme
- Coast Flight Training & Management INC 3 aircraft · flight school
- Amentum Services, INC · repair station
- Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corporation · repair station
- Coast Aviation Services · repair station
- Delta Group Electronics INC · repair station
- NTSB accidents and incidents at or near this airport 85 since 1982 · 15 fatal
- Accidents and incidents in California 9,069 since 1982 · 1,094 in the last ten years
- Nearby landing places within 30 nautical miles 8 airports, heliports and seaplane bases
- Public-use airports in California 244 landing places
- California 27,552 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/airport/MYF.json.
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 9, 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.