Jacumba Airport
L78 · Jacumba, California · San Diego County · map
Jacumba Airport is a public-use airport owned by the County of San Diego, 1 mile east of Jacumba, California, 2,844 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 07/25, is 2,562 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA L78
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- County of San Diego
- Elevation
- 2,844 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13E
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1941
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/25 | 2,562 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 25: right-hand traffic pattern, hill 480 ft high 5,000 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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 Jacumba from the FAA register
3 aircraft are registered to owners in Jacumba, California: 3 gliders. 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 · 7 since 1982, 2 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
- Closed sunset to sunrise, not lighted.
- International bdry to south.
- Wind pmtg, recommended land runway 07 and depart runway 25 due to 480 feet hill 1 MI east of AP.
- Frq gld act drg weekends, pwrd aircraft be alert for gld traffic launching from field and operg on and in vicinity of AP, surface to 18000 feet above sea level.
- Rapidly rising trrn all quads.
- Occasional wildlife on and in vicinity of AP.
- Contiguous adiz in vicinity and along international bdry, located approximately 615 feet south of runway 07-25.
- All aircraft avoid overflight U.S./mexican bdr WO authorized.
- Noise abatement; avoid overflying residential community 1/2 MI west.
- Recommended runway to ramp trsn, asphalt to soft dirt, at taxiway stub midfield, all other areas asphalt to gravel.
- Helicopter SKID/RUN-ON landing and AUTO-ROTATIONS prohibited.
- Rdo equippped aircraft shall SELF-ANNC on the common traffic frequency prior to landing or takeoff.
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.