Watsonville Municipal Airport

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The Watsonville Airport (English Watsonville Municipal Airport ) is a public airport located five kilometers northeast of the center of Watsonville, a city in Santa Cruz County .. The airport covers 134 acres and there are two start and landing paths available.

History

The U.S. Navy took over the site in July 1943, also bought 14 acres of land and built factory building and a concrete apron. On 23 October 1943, the Airport as an auxiliary airport Watsonville (English Auxiliary Naval Air Station ( NAAS ) Watsonville ) was put into operation. The airport served as a satellite of the Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda. With the end of World War II, the operation of NAAS Watsonville ended November 1, 1945 and the military air operation was abandoned. In March 1946, the site was taken over by the city Watsonville and released for civilian use.

Facilities

The longest start and landing path of the airport is 02/ 20 with a size of 1372 mx 45 m. The start and landing runway 09 /27 with dimensions 1219 mx 30 m is mainly used when fog from nearby Monterey Bay zoom pulls, or if the prevailing wind direction makes this necessary.

The airport is uncontrolled. The airfield is in control zone C of Monterey, coordinated arrivals and departures.

Instrument approaches

The runway 02 has three instrument approach procedures:

• Localizer, ILS simplified method of the lateral deviation display, but no vertical guidance ( Glidepath ) of the approaching aircraft has.
• RNAV (GPS )
• VOR / DME procedure