Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field
SMX · KSMX · Santa Maria, California · Santa Barbara County · map
Santa Maria Pub/Capt G Allan Hancock Field is a public-use airport, 3 miles south of Santa Maria, California, 261 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 12/30, is 8,004 feet of asphalt. It has a control tower and fuel (100LL avgas, Jet A).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SMX · ICAO KSMX
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 261 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- A control tower · 6:00 am to 8:00 pm
- Attended
- every day, 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
- Notes
- certified for airline service (Part 139)
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- June 1947
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 | 8,004 × 150 ft | Asphalt, fair | High-intensity lights |
| 02/20 | 5,199 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good |
- Runway 12: ILS with DME, PAPI, four lights on the right, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 30: PAPI, four lights on the right, trees 225 ft high 4,700 ft from the end
- Runway 02: right-hand traffic pattern
- Runway 20: trees 121 ft high 3,640 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · Tower | 118.3 | Santa Maria |
| UNICOM | 122.95 | |
| ATIS (recorded airport information) · Smx and automated weather (ASOS) | 121.15 | Santa Maria |
| Ground | 121.9 | Santa Maria |
| Approach and departure | 124.15 | Santa Maria |
| Emergency | 121.5 | Santa Maria |
| San Luis Obispo Center (remote transmitter) Low | 119.05 | Santa Maria |
Automated weather (ASOS), by phone 209-210-1160.
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 Santa Maria from the FAA register
76 aircraft are registered to owners in Santa Maria, California: 61 piston singles, 6 business jets, 3 turboprops, 2 helicopters, 2 drones. 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 · 22 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
- When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 12; PAPI runway 30; high-intensity runway lights runway 12/30; taxiway lights - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 12 oper continuously.
- Pattern altitude 1000; turbojet and pure jet 1500.
- Aircraft fuel servicing available 129.975.
- Runway 02/20 not available for part 121/PART 380 operations with schedule passenger carrying operations more than 9 passenger seats and unscheduled passenger carrying operations more than 30 passenger seats.
- Calm wind less than 8 knots use runway 30.
- No tgl operations; landing practice or practice instrument approaches 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
- Portions of taxiway J not visible from the control tower and unlighted.
- Numerous birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Caution parallel lighted road less than 1/4 mile northwest of runway 12/30.
- Transient pilots remain clear of commercial ramp and terminal.
- Self serve fuel 100LL available 24 hours located north of tower.
- Landing fees are applicable
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.