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KL08 · BXS

Borrego Valley Airport

33.25900°N

-116.32100°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 100.0%

Borrego Valley Airport (KL08/BXS) is a small general aviation airport located in Borrego Springs, CA, 45 mi east of Escondido. It features 1 runway measuring 5,011 feet.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

16h ago

Temp

100°F

Wind

12 kts

260°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KL08 022215Z AUTO 26012G22KT 10SM CLR 38/M05 A2983 RMK AO2

Runways

1 installed

5,011 FT MAX

08/26

5,011 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

96% of ops

22 land · 1 TO

4% of ops

1 land · 0 TO

Runway 08 carries 96% of operations (22 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 4%.

Approach quality

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

08 22 landings

UA 0%

26 1 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 08 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 22 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

0.4

flights/day · 12 total

Busy hour (local)

4pm

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

50%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 4pm–8pm local, averaging 0.4 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.2× weekday (0.1 vs 0.5 daily).

Aircraft character

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

4 · 33%

1 · 8%

Activity is led by (33% of 12 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	126.575	—
LAGUNA R	128.600	—
OTHER	128.600	—
LAGUNA R	291.700	—
OTHER	291.700	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Mag var:: 13° E
Fuel:: 100LL

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