Airports / KL08 / Borrego Valley AirportIATA BXSModerate ground coverage

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KL08 · BXS

Borrego Valley Airport

33.25900°N

-116.32100°W

ARR / DAY

▲ 0.0%

DEP / DAY

▲ 0.0%

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

4h ago

Temp

97°F

Wind

13 kts

260°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KL08 132355Z AUTO 26013G21KT 10SM CLR 36/10 A2975 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

55% of ops

12 land · 0 TO

45% of ops

10 land · 4 TO

Runway 08 carries 55% of operations (12 landings, 0 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 26 at 45%.

Approach quality

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

08 12 landings

UA 0%

26 10 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 08 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 12 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

0.2

flights/day · 6 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 1pm · 2pm

Day vs night

67%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 2pm–7pm local, averaging 0.2 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 2.6× weekday (0.4 vs 0.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

2 · 33%

1 · 17%

Activity is led by (33% of 6 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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