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KAVX · AVX

Catalina Airport

33.40490°N

-118.41600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 12.6%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.5%

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 20 arrivals and 31 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

20h ago

Temp

64°F

Wind

12 kts

240°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KAVX 032351Z AUTO 24012KT 10SM CLR 18/14 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP120 T01830139 10211 20178 58012 $

Runways

1 installed

3,000 FT MAX

04/22

3,000 ft × 60

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

95% of ops

994 land · 849 TO

5% of ops

49 land · 237 TO

Runway 22 carries 95% of operations (994 landings, 849 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

22 994 landings

UA 19%

04 49 landings

UA 18%

Approaches to 22 show a 19% unstable-approach rate (184 UA events from 994 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

46.2

flights/day · 1,386 total

Busy hour (local)

8pm

also 11pm · 7pm

Day vs night

45%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–8pm local, averaging 46.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.8× weekday (71.0 vs 39.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (31% of 1,028 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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