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Ensenada International Airport / El Cipres Air Base

31.79530°N
-116.60300°W
ARR / DAY
1
▼ 69.2%
DEP / DAY
1
▼ 72.2%
ON-TIME
—
schedules pending
AVG DELAY
—
7d window

Ensenada International Airport / El Cipres Air Base (MMES/ESE) is a small international airport located in Ensenada, Mexico. It features 1 runway measuring 4,892 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 1 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 5 carriers across 5 routes. The most active carrier is Flexjet LLC (Richardson (LXJ). The busiest route is to General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport (MMTJ).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL
↻
Go-arounds
0
✕
Rejected takeoffs
0
△
Unstable approaches
0
↺
Return to field
0

Current weather

From MMTJ, 56 mi away (MMES does not publish METAR)

46m ago
Temp
73°F
Wind
9 kts
250°
Visib
10+ km
Ceil
—
MMTJ 160040Z 25009KT 10SM BKN200 23/17 A3008 RMK 8/008 DSNT TCU ENE

Runways

1 installed

4,892 FT MAX
11/29
4,892 ft × 115
ASP● LIT

Runway intelligence

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

11
89% of ops
47 land · 1 TO
29
11% of ops
6 land · 31 TO
Runway 11 carries 89% of operations (47 landings, 1 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 11%.

Approach quality

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

11 47 landings
UA 0%
29 6 landings
UA 0%
Approaches to 11 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 47 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
2.8
flights/day · 83 total
Busy hour (local)
10pm
also 9pm · 7pm
Day vs night
40%
06:00–20:00 local
Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 2.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.3× weekday (3.5 vs 2.6 daily).

Aircraft character

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

14 · 20%
8 · 11%
6 · 8%
6 · 8%
4 · 6%
4 · 6%
Activity is led by (20% of 71 flights). Top three types: , , .

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

12a 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a 8a 9a 10a 11a 12p 1p 2p 3p 4p 5p 6p 7p 8p 9p 10p 11p

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

3
I_Am_So_Handsome
1/7/2026
Renew the comments
Ensenada International Airport functions primarily as a military air force base (Air Force Base No. 3) for the Mexican Air Force, but it also handles general and private aviation activities. It does not have scheduled commercial flights.
KPC6NDB
6/23/2017
NDB AN BOING 245 kHz Decommissioned
Decommissioned Apr 2007.
KPC6NDB
6/23/2017
NDB DEORO 210 kHz Decommissioned
Decommissioned Feb 2009.
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