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Oxnard Airport (KOXR) is a county-owned general-aviation field a mile west of downtown Oxnard on California's Ventura County coast, built around a single paved runway with an ILS approach. Once a scheduled airline stop for a succession of regional carriers, it now serves general aviation, flight training and a resident fixed-base operator, making it a straightforward VFR or IFR destination for simulator pilots working the Los Angeles basin's western approaches.
Oxnard Airport is a public, county-owned aerodrome in Oxnard, Ventura County, California, sited about a mile west of the town centre. It is a general-aviation field today, but its history as a scheduled airline stop, wartime military airfield and home to Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer gives it real character, and its single long runway with an ILS makes it a useful and interesting VFR or instrument destination for simulator pilots exploring the Southern California coast.
The airport sits on the coastal plain a mile west of downtown Oxnard in Ventura County, California, close to the Pacific shoreline. It lies within range of several other airports with instrument procedures, including Camarillo Airport (KCMA) six nautical miles east and Point Mugu Naval Air Station (KNTD) seven nautical miles southeast, with Santa Barbara Municipal, Van Nuys and Santa Monica airports all farther afield. The field is served by a tower and ground control frequency, and Point Mugu Approach/Departure provides the wider approach and departure control service in the area.
Oxnard Airport has one physical runway, 07/25, both directions surfaced in hard-standing and lit. Runway 07 is 5,944 ft long, while Runway 25, which is equipped with an ILS, is 5,493 ft. Field elevation is 36 ft.
Point Mugu Approach/Departure works arriving and departing IFR traffic on 124.7 MHz. The airport ATIS broadcasts on 118.05 MHz. Tower and the common traffic advisory frequency share 134.95 MHz, with Ground control on 121.9 MHz. Runway 25 is served by an ILS approach.
The airport lies a mile west of downtown Oxnard, close to the Ventura County coastline, and its position relative to nearby fields is a useful orientation aid: Camarillo Airport lies six nautical miles to the east and the Point Mugu naval airfield seven nautical miles to the southeast, both readily identifiable landmarks when inbound from those directions.
Ventura County opened Oxnard Airport in 1934 with a 3,500 ft dirt runway; the first fixed-base operator, Joe Plosser, ran just two aircraft with no housing for them. In the 1930s Howard Hughes kept a tent hangar at the field to shelter his H-1 Racer, which he flight-tested from the dirt strip. The runway was paved and a large hangar built in 1938, and in 1939 James
AXIS Air began operating at Oxnard Airport in 2025 as a full-service fixed-base operator, taking over the former Golden West Jet Center facility and offering fuelling, aircraft parking, hangar space and pilot services. The company also hosts a restored 1945 Douglas DC-3 in its hangar, adding to the airfield's character. Since scheduled airline service ended in 2010, touch-and-go training by flight schools and hobbyist pilots has made up a large share of the airport's traffic.