Catalina Airport

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Catalina Airport

IATA: CIB - ICAO: KAVX - FAA: AVX
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Catalina Island Conservancy
Serves		Avalon, California
Elevation AMSL		1,602 ft (488.3 m)
Coordinates		33°24′18″N, 118°24′57″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
4/22	3,000	914	Asphalt

Catalina Airport (IATA: CIB, ICAO: KAVX, FAA LID: AVX) is a public airport located six miles (10 km) northwest of the central business district (CBD) of Avalon, California in the middle of Catalina Island. The airport is exclusively used for general aviation. It is also known as the Airport in the Sky due to the fact it lies near the island's highest point at an elevation of 1,602 ft. All roads to the airport from the island's population centers climb steeply upward.

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Catalina Airport is assigned AVX^[1] by the FAA and CIB^[2] by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KAVX^[2].

There is a restaurant at the airport, the Buffalo Springs Station restaurant, and for private pilots in the Los Angeles area, the airport is one local choice for a $100 Hamburger (aviation slang for a private general aviation flight for the sole purpose of dining at a non-local airport). The restaurant and airport is also a stop on some of the tours of the interior of Catalina Island from Avalon.