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Lompoc Airport (KLPC) is a small public-use general aviation field on the north side of Lompoc, California, sitting on the south bank of the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara County. It is a quiet, uncontrolled field with a single asphalt runway, popular with local training traffic and skydiving operations, and offers a straightforward VFR destination in the Santa Ynez Valley.
Lompoc Airport is a city-operated public airport on the northern edge of Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County, California. It is a single-runway general aviation field with no scheduled airline service, used mainly by local training, touring light aircraft and parachute operations, making it an easy and characterful VFR stop for the simulator pilot exploring California's central coast.
The airport lies in Class G airspace beneath the approach and departure environment served by Santa Barbara Approach/Departure, which provides an advisory service on 124.15 MHz. It sits just north of the City of Lompoc, on the south bank of the Santa Ynez River and immediately west of State Highway 1 (locally known as H Street). There is no control tower on the field.
Lompoc has a single physical runway, 07/25, with an asphalt surface. Runway 07 is 4,586 feet long and Runway 25 is 4,455 feet long; both ends are lit.
Traffic at Lompoc uses CTAF/UNICOM on 122.7 MHz. Santa Barbara Approach/Departure can be reached on 124.15 MHz for advisory service in the surrounding airspace. An automated weather observation is broadcast on the AWOS-3 frequency of 133.875 MHz. The field has no instrument landing system.
The Santa Ynez River, immediately north of the runway, and State Highway 1 (H Street), running along the airport's eastern boundary, are the principal landmarks for locating and joining the field; the airport lies just north of the built-up area of Lompoc itself.
During the Second World War the US Navy built the Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Lompoc near the present airport as a base for lighter-than-air airships, which patrolled the coast for enemy shipping. Construction began in December 1942, and the base opened with a 500 by 1,000-foot asphalt landing mat and two blimp mooring masts, along with housing for 25 officers and 72 enlisted men. Five days after opening, on 13 August 1943, blimp K-29 struck a high-voltage power line while being manoeuvred in fog, and the resulting electrical arc killed four crew members and seriously burned a fifth; these were the only fatalities recorded at the base. The airport itself was relocated to its current site in 1960, having previously been located nearer the city centre.
Lompoc Airport is operated by the City of Lompoc and continues to serve general aviation, with light single-engine aircraft based on the field along with at least one multi-engine type. Skydive Santa Barbara conducts parachute operations daily during daylight hours from the airport. The field handles a modest volume of general aviation traffic and remains a practical, low-key destination for VFR flights along the central California coast.
