Marina Municipal Airport is a public

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surfa ...

located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Marina, a city in

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. It is owned by the City of Marina. The airport is on the former site of the Fritzsche Army Air Field, built in the early 1960s at

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, which closed in 1994.Fritzsche Army Air Field
at GlobalSecurity.org

Facilities and aircraft

Marina Municipal Airport has one

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paved

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

(11/29) measuring 3,483 x 75 ft. (1,062 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 40,000 aircraft operations, an average of 109 per day, all of which were

general aviation General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations with the exception of commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services ...

. There are 69 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single engine, 6% multi-engine, 3%

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s and 4%

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. The Naval Postgraduate School, based in the nearby city of

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, has a

Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies The Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS) located at the Marina Municipal Airport and is a research center of the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), based in the nearby city of Monterey. Among their research is ...

(NPS/CIRPAS) at this airport.
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conducts skydiving and parachuting activities on the south east side of the Marina Municipal airport. In 2021, a manufacturing facility for

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was approved at the airport.

References

External links

OAR - Marina, California
- includes photos of airport
Aviation Photos: OAR / KOAR - Marina Municipal (Fritzsche AAF)
* Airports in Monterey County, California {{California-airport-stub