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Regional airport

Santa Monica Municipal Airport.

KSMO · SMO · Santa Monica, CA — charter flights arranged across FAA Part 135 operators.
Longest paved runway
3,500 ft
Field elevation
170 ft
Runway-capable types
5 of 24
Coordinates
34.02, -118.45
Passengers
2 passengers

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Santa Monica Municipal Airport's 3,500 ft of runway is shorter than most of the 152 jet-capable fields in California, close to sea level, so the published runway figure is close to what an aircraft actually needs here. 5 of the 24 types we broker clear it; the runway rules out 19. Los Angeles's published corridors start 14 miles from this field.

Access

Getting here

Straight-line distances from the cities we publish, with a typical aircraft's block time including taxi, climb and descent.

From-prices are one way and all-in — operator price, our fee and federal excise tax — for the smallest cabin suited to the distance, indicative rather than quoted. Short legs sit at the smallest cabin's daily minimum, so we show distance and time for those and price them on request.

Runway

What can operate here

Compared against the published balanced field length of every type we broker, with roughly 3% added per 1,000 ft of elevation for density altitude.

This is runway length only. Individual airports also restrict by wingspan, noise curfew, slot availability and special approach certification, and performance moves with temperature, weight and the day. Clearing the runway here means an aircraft is worth asking about — the operator confirms it, and signs for it.

  • Turboprop

    2 types clear the runwayneeds ~2,664–3,317 ft here

    Seats, range and runway needed, by type
    • Pilatus PC-126–8 seats · 2,123 mi range · needs ~2,664 ft here
    • Beechcraft King Air 3508–9 seats · 2,078 mi range · needs ~3,317 ft here

  • Light jet

    3 types clear the runwayneeds ~3,196–3,427 ft here

    Seats, range and runway needed, by type
    • Cessna Citation CJ47–8 seats · 2,491 mi range · needs ~3,427 ft here
    • Cessna Citation CJ3+6–7 seats · 2,348 mi range · needs ~3,196 ft here
    • Cessna Citation M25–6 seats · 1,784 mi range · needs ~3,226 ft here

Ruled out by runway length: Cessna Citation XLS+, Cessna Citation Latitude, Embraer Phenom 300, Dassault Falcon 2000LXS, Embraer Praetor 600, Gulfstream G280 and 13 more — the shortest of these needs about 3,578 ft here.

Alternates

Nearby alternates

The closest other jet-capable fields, in case weather, slots or runway length send the trip somewhere else.