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History Long Beach Airport is an international airport located a few kilometers from the central business district of Long Beach City. It is located in the county of Los Angeles, State of California in the United States. It also serves Orange County besides Los Angeles County. It was initially known as Long Beach Municipal Airport. Comparatively, it is a small airport, and its managers are not planning to expand it soon to reduce or to limit the noise caused by airplanes taking off and landing. Therefore, it has remarkably little passenger service in comparison to the neighboring Los Angeles International airport. It is under the category of primary support airports.
Long Beach is located near an airport in California. According to its name, it is open that the airport’s development is closely related to the geographical location as well as appearance of the beach. Calbraith Perry Rodgers flew the first plane to land in the beach in 1911. From that year, several planes continued to utilize the beach as a runway. Due to the potentiality of the beach to serve as an airport, the Long Beach city council decided to set aside 150 acres of land at a place next to the intersection of Cherry and Spring Streets for use as airfield. The airport was first named as Daugherty Field after one of the pioneer aviators in the area, Earl S. Daugherty. Daugherty Field airport received its first lease for operators in 1925, April. Two years later, it was expanded to 500 acres covering a large piece of land along the beach. It later changed its name to Long Beach Airport after the expansion.
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As mentioned earlier, Long Beach Airport is a publicly owned property. It is owned by the city of Long Beach, which is also responsible for the employment of the airport operators and managers. The profits earned in the lucrative business are used in its operations, expansions, and developing other parts of the Long Beach Town like the tourist destinations to gain more income. Management
The Overall Manager of the Long Beach Airport is Mario Rodriguez. Executive Assistant to the Director is Ken Mason. Chief John Blood is in charge of overall safety of the airport. Superintendent of the airport operations is Fred Pena. Claudia Lewis is the administrative officer and Carolyn-Lowe is the Operations & Facilities Bureau Manager.
Type of Aircraft Operations
Average 903/day, 46% local, general aviation, 41% transient general aviation, 10% commercial, l3% air taxi, <1%military
Based Aircraft
Long Beach Airport has 435-based aircrafts on the field. Out of the total based aircraft, there are 301 single-engine airplanes and 46 multiengine airplanes. There are also 46 jet airplanes and 42 helicopters that are based in this airport. Long Beach is a destination for various airplanes such as Boeing. The Airport site is a component of the powerful Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It produces 717-type twin-jet. The Long Beach Airplane site and the Long Beach Airport merged in the later years after the formation of the Airplane Site. The result of this is evident even today as many of the aircrafts operating in the airport are from the company. There are other aircrafts operating in the airport, as well. However, according to aircraft make, there is a variety of aircrafts operating daily in the airport. There are helicopters, multiengine airplanes, single engine airplanes, and jet airplanes (Hillburg & Grobaty, 2000).
Terminal Size
The Long Beach Airport has a small and single linear terminal airport. More plans are in progress, to ensure modernization of the passenger terminals. Among other goals in the plans are improving parking structures, addition of parking positions for new aircrafts and improving airside movements in the airport. The airport currently accommodates less than 3.5 million passengers. According to plan, it will accommodate about 4.2 million passengers (Poole, 2010).
Runway Configuration
There are two principal runway configurations among the five existing ones in the Airport. The first one is Runway 12/30 measuring 10000 feet by 200 feet/3048m by 61m. It has a grooved surface with favorable conditions. Its weight bearing capacities is double wheel (200.0), single wheel (30.00), and double tandem (300.0). The second Runway is 7L/25R. Its dimension is 6192 feet by 150 feet/1887m by 46m. It has porous and friction courses. Its single wheel is 30.0; double tandem is 110.0 and double is 70.0. h) Air Traffic Control Tower Hours of Operations Air Traffic Control tower at Long beach airport is not 24 hours operational. It opens at 6:15am and closes at 11:45pm
Air Carriers
About five air carriers fly in and out of the long beach airport. They are JetBlue airways, Alaska airline operated by sky west airline, allegiant airline, delta airline, delta connection operated by SkyWest airlines and US airways operated by Mesa Airline. Operations/Enplanements
On a yearly basis, General aviation transient operation is about 136,615 aircrafts, general aviation local operation is 150,432 aircrafts, air taxi operation is 9949 aircrafts, commercial operation is about 31,854 aircrafts, and military operation is about 958. In 2009, there were 1,401,903 enplanements in this airport and 1,451,404 enplanements, in 2010. There is a 3.53% increase in enplanements.
Financial Performance
According to the latest available financial record, landing fee for the company was $4,420,115. The terminal fees were $240,608. Tie downs or Apron charges were $3,457,594. The Company’s FBO (Federal Business Opportunity) revenue was Contract / Sponsor-operated, and it amounted to $5,459,452. The fuel sales had a net profit or loss/ fuel flowage fees amounted to $285,089 while the miscellaneous expenditure was $16,900.