Santa Paula Airport
SZP · KSZP · Santa Paula, California · Ventura County · map
Santa Paula Airport is a public-use airport owned by Santa Paula Arpt Association, 1 mile southeast of Santa Paula, California, 250 feet above sea level. It has 2 runways; the longest, 04/22, is 2,665 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas).
The airport
- Codes
- FAA SZP · ICAO KSZP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · privately owned
- Owner
- Santa Paula Arpt Association
- Elevation
- 250 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 600 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: major repairs; engine: major repairs
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Los Angeles sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 14E
- In the FAA's files since
- April 1940
Runways 2
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/22 | 2,665 × 60 ft | Asphalt, good | |
| H1 | 60 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent |
- Runway 04: right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 148 ft, building 16 ft high 350 ft from the end
- Runway 22: threshold displaced 225 ft, trees 16 ft high 200 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 |
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Aircraft registered in Santa Paula from the FAA register
106 aircraft are registered to owners in Santa Paula, California: 98 piston singles, 2 piston twins, 2 helicopters, 1 turboprop, 1 glider. 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 · 51 since 1982, 12 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
- Estbd before 5/15/59.
- 24 hour SELF-FUELING available with all major credit cards.
- Runway 22 approach ratio 20:1 to displaced thld trees and wires; approach ratio to displaced thld 14:1 over +16 feet building 220 feet from displaced thld 135 feet right.
- Night operations prohibited.
- +4 feet sign in prmary surface at northeast end of airport.
- Ultralights; banner towing; gliders; RC models oper in the vicinity.
- Daily aerobatic activity 3-18 miles east up to 5,255 feet above ground level, monitor on 122.775.
- Be alert to wires crossing over river bed adjacent to runway 04/22. Locations: 1.5 miles and 3.5 miles southwest approach end runway 04. Also, 1,500 feet and 2.5 miles northeast approach end runway 22.
- Helicopter must use dsgnd helicopter located MID-FIELD on the south side. All approaches/departures are from the south
- Transient helicopter rsrtd to the helicopter. Hover taxi not authorized.
- 2200 feet MT 1 NM south of airport; for noise abatement mntn 1500 feet upwind ovr city.
- No ohd approaches; no 45 degrees entries; no crosswind entries ovr runway.
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.