Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZOA), (radio communications, "Oakland Center") is one of 22

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s in the

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. It is located at 5125 Central Ave,

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, roughly 25 miles southeast of downtown

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in the

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. The primary responsibility of Oakland Center is sequencing and separation of over-flights, arrivals, and departures, in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft filed under instrument flight rules (

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). Oakland Center is the 16th busiest ARTCC in the United States. Between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017, Oakland Center handled 1,752,411 aircraft. Domestically, Oakland Center KZOA covers approximately 140,000 square miles of the

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, including parts of

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, and

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. Oakland Center KZAK also covers 18.7 million square miles of the

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, roughly 9.5% of the Earth's total surface area, making this the largest Area Control Center in the world by controlled surface area. Oakland Center lies adjacent to 21 different domestic air facilities, including

Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center The Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center (or ZSE or Seattle Center or Seattle ARTCC) is the area control center responsible for controlling and ensuring proper separation of IFR aircraft in Washington state, most of Oregon, and parts of Idah ...

, Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, and

Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZLC) (radio communications "Salt Lake Center") is one of 22 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). (2013, June 5). Air route traffic control centers (ARTCC). Retrieved from https://www.faa.gov/about/ ...

. ZOA overlies or abuts several approach control facilities (including

Northern California TRACON Northern California TRACON (NCT) ( Terminal Radar Approach Control), or NorCal TRACON for short (pronounced "nor-cal tray-con"), also known as NorCal Approach, is an air traffic control facility that provides safety alerts, separation, and sequenc ...

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Oakland Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU)
( NWS/

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