Marina Municipal Airport

Marina Municipal Airport (IATA: OAR, ICAO: KOAR, FAA LID: OAR) is a public airport located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Marina, a city in Monterey County, California, United States. It is owned by the City of Marina.[1]

Marina Municipal Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerCity of Marina
LocationMarina, California
Elevation AMSL137 ft / 42 m
Coordinates36°40′53″N 121°45′42″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
11/29 3,483 1,062 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations40,000
Based aircraft69

The airport is on the former site of the Fritzsche Army Air Field, built in the early 1960s at Fort Ord, which closed in 1994.[2]

Facilities and aircraft

Marina Municipal Airport has one asphalt paved runway (11/29) measuring 3,483 x 75 ft. (1,062 x 23 m).[1]

For the 12-month period ending August 31, 2006, the airport had 40,000 aircraft operations, an average of 109 per day, all of which were general aviation. There are 69 aircraft based at this airport: 87% single engine, 6% multi-engine, 3% helicopters and 4% ultralight.[1]

The Naval Postgraduate School, based in the nearby city of Monterey, has a Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (NPS/CIRPAS) at this airport.[2][3]

Skydive Monterey Bay conducts skydiving and parachuting activities on the south east side of the Marina Municipal airport. [4] [5]

In 2021, a manufacturing facility for Joby Aviation was approved at the airport.[6]

References
  1. FAA Airport Form 5010 for OAR PDF, effective 2007-07-05
  2. Fritzsche Army Air Field at GlobalSecurity.org
  3. Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies Archived 2007-06-24 at the Wayback Machine (official site)
  4. "AirNav: KOAR - Marina Municipal Airport". www.airnav.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  5. "Monterey Bay Skydive". www.seemonterey.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  6. "Final Environmental Assessment: Proposed Joby Aviation Manufacturing Facility at Marina Municipal Airport". City of Marina, California. Retrieved July 14, 2021.


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