Zamperini Field

The airport

This airport's record at the FAA

Runways 3

For understanding the field, not for navigation.

• Runway 11L: VASI, two boxes on the left, threshold displaced 541 ft, trees 35 ft high 690 ft from the end
• Runway 29R: ILS with DME, VASI, four boxes on the left, medium-intensity approach lights with runway alignment lights (MALSR), right-hand traffic pattern, threshold displaced 540 ft, building 22 ft high 475 ft from the end
• Runway 11R: right-hand traffic pattern
• Runway 29L: VASI, two boxes on the left, building 26 ft high 1,400 ft from the end

Radio frequencies

Automated weather (AWOS-3PT), by phone 310-534-2847.

Fuel and services as reported to the FAA

Nearest fields reporting jet fuel: Jack Northrop Fld/Hawthorne Municipal (7 nm north), Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (9 nm east), Los Angeles International (9 nm north), Santa Monica Municipal (14 nm northwest).

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.

The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file, spelled out

• When the control tower closed activate approach lights (MALSR) runway 29R - the common traffic frequency; medium-intensity runway lights runway 11L/29R sunset to sunrise; medium-intensity runway lights runway 11R/29L 6:00 am to 8:00 pm; activate helipad perimeter lights - 24 hours - the common traffic frequency. VASI runway 29L oper continuously.
• Fuel available 7:00 am to 8:00 pm.
• Yellow perimeter lights.
• +9 feet approach lights (MALSR) building 190 feet from east or 440 feet right.
• Unusable beyond 2 degrees right and 9 degrees left of runway centerline.
• Runway 11L approach ratio to displaced threshold 35:1;
• Approach ratio 46:1 to displaced thld.
• Fato and tlof paved.
• No MULTI-ENGINE simulated ENGINE-OUT procedures authorized in traffic pattern. Runway 11R/29L closed 8:00 pm to 7:00 am.
• At taxiways hotel and charlie obs taxiway hold lines. All aircraft must hold between the set of hold bars for the approach zone for runway 11R/29L.
• Be alert to personnel and eqpt operating near all runways and taxiways.
• Numerous flocks of birds on and in the vicinity of airport.

Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024

The FAA's count is the general-aviation aircraft kept on the field (singles, twins, business jets, helicopters) from its Terminal Area Forecast, the latest year with an actual count; airline fleets are never counted as based anywhere, so a big airline airport shows a small number. The aircraft heard arriving or departing are the site's own record from the volunteer receiver network, airliners included; aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out. The register section below shows how many aircraft are registered to owners in town, a different measure again.

Takeoffs and landings a year about 123,241, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)

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.

Aircraft registered in Torrance from the FAA register

299 aircraft are registered to owners in Torrance, California: 192 piston singles, 76 helicopters, 13 piston twins, 6 business jets, 5 turboprops. 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.

Who works here from the FAA's certificate lists and the register

Fuel and service companies in Torrance, by their names on the register (a start, not a directory):

• Mercury Air LLC Mercury Aviation Companies LLC is a privately held aviation services company based in Torrance, California, providing jet fuel sales, cargo logistics, and transportation services to commercial airlines, general aviation, and corporate custo

Flight schools, flying clubs and college flight programmes based within about 15 miles:

• West End Flyers INC 1 aircraft · San Pedro, 6 miles away
• A&E Flying Club of Los Angeles 4 aircraft · Hawthorne, 8 miles away
• Beach Cities Aviation Academy LLC 1 aircraft · Hawthorne, 8 miles away
• Aces High Aviation LLC 6 aircraft · Long Beach, 11 miles away Aces High Aviation is a Part 61 flight school at Long Beach Airport (KLGB) in California, established in 2010.
• Pacific Air Flight School LLC 2 aircraft · Long Beach, 11 miles away

Charter operators and airlines based in Torrance:

• Mercury Air Cargo, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate Mercury Aviation Companies LLC is a privately held aviation services company based in Torrance, California, providing fuel sales, cargo logistics, and ground services to commercial airlines, general aviation, and the U.S.
• Sling Flying Club, LLC 1 aircraft on the certificate

Repair stations in Torrance:

• Aeroworx INC
• Cupery Corporation Aircraft Window Repairs is a FAA and EASA-certified repair station specializing in the repair and restoration of aircraft windows, lenses, and optical prisms for private owners, corporate operators, and airlines.
• Honeywell Aerospace US LLC - Torrance R&O
• Ipeco INC Ipeco Inc is an aerospace manufacturer specializing in aircraft crew seating, executive jet seating, and related aerospace systems and components.
• Moog INC
• Plasma Technology INC
• Robinson Helicopter Company INC

Companies in the same town as this airport, and schools within about 15 miles of it (each placed at the main public airport of its town, or at the town's centre); not every one of them works from this field. All operators · all repair stations · all flight schools · all FBOs.

Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 54 since 1982, 10 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