McClellan-Palomar Airport KCRQ / CRQ
North County's corporate airport in Carlsbad, 45 minutes from Downtown San Diego and minutes from La Costa, Rancho Santa Fe and the biotech cluster. CBP available; a short runway and a curfew ordinance restrict heavy and late operations.
4,897 ft
Longest runway
45 min
Drive to San Diego
2
FBOs / handlers
331 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- H24 with noise ordinance curfew 22:00–07:00 (tower 06:00–22:00)
- 24-hour operations
- No
- Customs & immigration
- Yes
- Prior permission (PPR)
- No
- Slot coordination
- No
- Noise curfew
- Yes
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel
- Jet A, Avgas 100LL
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 55 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Light to super-midsize jets; large-cabin with weight limits on a 4,897 ft runway.
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Atlantic Aviation Carlsbad
- Western Flight
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 4,897 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000S 4,325 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 500 4,084 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 500 4,222 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 450 3,907 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Latitude 3,580 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Sovereign+ 3,530 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000LXS needs 4,675 ft
- Bombardier Learjet 45XR needs 4,680 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 600 needs 4,717 ft
Other airports for San Diego
- San Diego International Airport KSAN 9,401 ft · 10 min