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KAVX · AVX

Catalina Airport

33.40490°N

-118.41600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 10.4%

DEP / DAY

▼ 7.3%

Catalina Airport (KAVX/AVX) is a small general aviation airport located in Avalon, CA, 28 mi south west of Long Beach. It features 1 runway measuring 3,000 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 17 arrivals and 25 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago

Temp

34°F

Wind

4 kts

220°

Visib

—

Ceil

—

METAR KAVX 011351Z AUTO 22004KT 2 1/2SM BR OVC002 14/14 A3001 RMK AO2 VIS 1 1/2V4 SLP147 T01440139

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

04/22

3,000 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

95% of ops

542 land · 470 TO

5% of ops

28 land · 136 TO

Runway 22 carries 95% of operations (542 landings, 470 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 04 at 5%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

22 542 landings

UA 20%

04 28 landings

UA 21%

Approaches to 22 show a 20% unstable-approach rate (110 UA events from 542 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

41.1

flights/day · 1,234 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 7pm · 9pm

Day vs night

45%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 8pm–9pm local, averaging 41.1 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.2× weekday (70.4 vs 32.0 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (29% of 898 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.700	—
APCH	127.400	—
APCH	323.275	—
UNICOM	122.700	—
ASOS	120.675	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Elevation:: 1,602 ft
Mag var:: 14° E

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

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