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MMES · ESE

Ensenada International Airport / El Cipres Air Base

31.79530°N

-116.60300°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 100.0%

DEP / DAY

▼ 53.8%

ON-TIME

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schedules pending

AVG DELAY

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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 0 arrivals and 1 departures per day on average over the last 7 days, served by 4 carriers across 3 routes. The most active carrier is Flexjet LLC (Richardson (LXJ). The busiest route is to On the Rocks Airport (1CA6).

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

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

47m ago

Temp

77°F

Wind

9 kts

250°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

MMTJ 192348Z 25009KT 10SM SKC 25/16 A2989 RMK SLP126 57012 973 HZY SC W

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

82% of ops

18 land · 3 TO

18% of ops

4 land · 10 TO

Runway 11 carries 82% of operations (18 landings, 3 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 29 at 18%.

Approach quality

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

11 18 landings

UA 0%

29 4 landings

UA 0%

Approaches to 11 show a 0% unstable-approach rate (0 UA events from 18 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

1.9

flights/day · 57 total

Busy hour (local)

10pm

also 9pm · 7pm

Day vs night

32%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 7pm–10pm local, averaging 1.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.7× weekday (1.5 vs 2.1 daily).

Aircraft character

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

6 · 14%

4 · 9%

3 · 7%

Activity is led by (14% of 44 flights). Top three types: , , .

Pilot & community notes

3 comments from OurAirports (click to expand)

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

6/24/2017

NDB AN BOING 245 kHz Decommissioned

Decommissioned Apr 2007.

KPC6NDB

6/24/2017

NDB DEORO 210 kHz Decommissioned

Decommissioned Feb 2009.

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