📍 Santa Ynez⬆ 674 ft1 runways

KIZA · SQA

Santa Ynez Airport

34.60680°N

-120.07600°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 31.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 16.8%

Santa Ynez Airport (KIZA/SQA) is a small general aviation airport located in Santa Ynez, CA, 31 mi south east of Santa Maria. It features 1 runway measuring 2,804 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 10 arrivals and 14 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

From KSBA, 18 mi away (KIZA does not publish METAR)

23m ago

Temp

65°F

Wind

5 kts

250°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

KSBA 050453Z 25005KT 10SM OVC008 18/16 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP121 T01830161 $

Runways

1 installed

2,804 FT MAX

08/26

2,804 ft × 75

ASP● LITMED

Runway intelligence

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

61% of ops

833 land · 1,152 TO

39% of ops

529 land · 126 TO

Runway 26 carries 61% of operations (833 landings, 1,152 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 08 at 39%.

Approach quality

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

26 833 landings

UA 4%

08 529 landings

UA 10%

Approaches to 26 show a 4% unstable-approach rate (34 UA events from 833 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

30.8

flights/day · 923 total

Busy hour (local)

5pm

also 7pm · 8pm

Day vs night

45%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–8pm local, averaging 30.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (36.8 vs 30.0 daily).

Aircraft character

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

Activity is led by (23% of 675 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	124.150	—
APCH	327.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
AWOS	118.075	—
SAN LUIS	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
SAN LUIS	269.500	—
OTHER	269.500	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZLA
Mag var:: 14° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

JohnWSB

8/9/2013

Great Airport

Good fuel prices, walk to Santa Ynez, and if you want to wait there's a number to call for a free ride to the Chumash native casino (big white building complex at an angle off the West end of the runway).

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