Calexico International Airport is a city-owned public-use airport located one mile (1.6 km) west of the central business district of

Calexico Calexico () is a city in southern Imperial County, California. Situated on the Mexican border, it is linked economically with the much larger city of Mexicali, the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California. It is about east of San Diego ...

, in

Imperial County, California Imperial County is a county on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 179,702, making it the least populous county in Southern California. The county seat is El Centro. Imperial is the m ...

. The airport is mostly used for

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 ...

and to facilitate

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Facilities and aircraft

Calexico International Airport covers an area of which contains 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 ...

(8/26) measuring 4,679 x 75 ft (1,426 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2004, the airport had 12,240 aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day: 93%

and 7%

air taxi An air taxi is a small commercial aircraft that makes short flights on demand. In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) ...

. At that time there were 23 aircraft based at this airport: 83% single-

engine An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power ...

and 17% multi-engine.

References

External links

Calexico International Airport
page at City of Calexico website Airports in Imperial County, California Calexico, California {{California-airport-stub