Long Beach Airport

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Long Beach Airport
Daugherty Field
LGB airport map.PNG
Characteristics
ICAO code KLGB
IATA code LGB
Coordinates

33 ° 49 '4 "  N , 118 ° 9' 6"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 49 '4 "  N , 118 ° 9' 6"  W.
Height above MSL 18.3 m (60  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 7 km southwest of Long Beach ,
28 km south of Los Angeles ( City Hall )
Street I-405 (San Diego Freeway) / SR 19
Local transport Bus :
Long Beach Transit Route 102/104/111
Basic data
opening 1923
operator City of Long Beach
surface 472 ha
Terminals 1
Passengers 3,884,721 (2018)
Air freight 21,635 t (2018)
Flight
movements 		274,425 (2018)
Employees 9,000
Runways
12/30 3048 m × 61 m asphalt
07L / 25R 1887 m × 46 m asphalt
07R / 25L 1653 m × 46 m asphalt

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The Long Beach Airport ( IATA : LGB , ICAO : KLGB , formerly Long Beach Municipal Airport , officially Long Beach Airport / Daugherty Field ) is a regional airport in Long Beach in Los Angeles County of the US state of California . It is located about 16 miles southeast of the much larger Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and is also known as Daugherty Field. Despite its rather minor importance in passenger traffic, Long Beach Airport is an important economic factor in the region due to the numerous companies based at the airport.

Location and transport links

Long Beach Airport is located seven kilometers northeast of downtown Long Beach and 28 kilometers south of Los Angeles City Hall . The California State Route 19 runs east of the airport and the tunnel under the runway 12/30. In addition, Interstate 405 and the San Diego Freeway run on a common route south of the airport.

Long Beach Airport is integrated into local public transport by buses ; routes 102, 104 and 111 of the Long Beach Transit public transport company serve it regularly.

history

View of the terminal

In the early 1920s, when aviation emerged in Long Beach, the beach initially served as a landing and take-off runway. In 1923, the Long Beach City Council planned a site for a new airport, the actual construction took place between 1928 and 1930 with the construction of hangars and facilities for the Navy and Navy. The terminal, which was built in 1941 in Art Deco style , is still in use and is now a listed building . In the same year, McDonnell Douglas built a production hall, where models such as DC-3 , DC-8 , DC-9 , DC-10 , MD-80 , MD-90 and MD-11 were manufactured in the later years . In 1997 the company merged with Boeing .

Long Beach Airport experienced an upswing in passenger traffic in 2001 when the low-cost airline JetBlue made the airport its hub on the west coast. The groundbreaking ceremony for a new passenger terminal took place in 2010 .

Economical meaning

Final approach on runway 30

The major cargo companies DHL , UPS and FedEx are based in the air freight division .

The largest employer at the airport was the armaments and aircraft manufacturer Boeing , which produced the Boeing 717 until 2006 and the Boeing C-17 until 2015 in the former halls of McDonnell-Douglas in Long Beach. In 2012 Boeing sold a large part of the site. The remaining halls at Long Beach Airport were offered for sale by Boeing in November 2018.

Other important companies at the airport are Cessna and Gulfstream . The company has also Virgin Orbit is headquartered at the airport.

Airlines and Destinations

Long Beach Airport serves the low-cost airline JetBlue as a hub on the west coast. Furthermore, the airlines American Eagle , Delta Connection , Hawaiian Airlines and Southwest Airlines serve the airport regularly. A total of 17 destinations are served in the United States .

Traffic figures

Despite its rather minor importance in passenger traffic, Long Beach Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world due to the large number of flight movements (274,425 in 2018; see Frankfurt 512,115 in the same year). The airport-based flight schools, private planes, zeppelins and helicopters all contribute to this.

Source: Long Beach Airport
Source: Long Beach Airport
Long Beach Airport traffic figures 2000–2018
year Passenger numbers Air freight ( tons ) Aircraft movements
(with military)
2018 3,884,721 21,635 274.425
2017 3,783,775 22,984 321,797
2016 2,841,144 25,220 312,421
2015 2,523,686 23,861 310.263
2014 2,823,996 25,529 -
2013 2,942,873 24,366 -
2012 3,206,910 24,381 -
2011 3,115,433 25,440 286.738
2010 2,978,426 26,085 270,667
2009 2,909,307 31,618 297.079
2008 2,913,926 41,961 -
2007 2,906,556 46,849 398.433
2006 2,758,362 45,302 369,738
2005 3,034,032 49,248 353.011
2004 2,926,873 51,744 339.222
2003 2,875,525 - 339.370
2002 1,453,551 - 349.914
2001 587.473 - 362.014
2000 637.853 - 412,554

Busiest routes

Busiest national routes from Long Beach (2018)
rank city Passengers airline
01 Oakland , California 294,570 Jetblue , Southwest
02 Las Vegas , Nevada 282,580 JetBlue
03 Salt Lake City , Utah 263,610 Delta Connection , JetBlue
04th Sacramento , California 196.860 JetBlue
05 San Francisco , California 170.120 JetBlue
06th San Jose , California 116,950 JetBlue
07th New York – JFK , New York 095,300 JetBlue
08th Portland , Oregon 080,470 JetBlue
09 Seattle / Tacoma , Washington 077,360 JetBlue
10 Phoenix – Sky Harbor , Arizona 072.110 American Eagle

Incidents

  • On November 18, 1950, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation of the US American Trans World Airlines (TWA) ( aircraft registration number N86511 ) had to make an emergency landing at Long Beach Airport after two of the four engines failed . The machine only touched down after a good half of the runway length and could no longer be brought to a stop on the slippery runway. The right main landing gear collapsed and the aircraft only came to a standstill after around 430 meters. All 60 inmates survived.

Web links

Commons : Long Beach Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Airport Timeline. LGB.org, accessed on August 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Monthly Noise and Activity Reports. LGB.org, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Facts at a glance. LGB.org, accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Long Beach Airport / Daugherty Field ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved August 23, 2016.
  5. ^ Ground Transportation. LGB.org, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Boeing 717 Manufacturing Plant - Long Beach, Calif. Boeing .com, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Boeing is selling Long Beach property where it used to build cargo planes. LATimes .com, November 6, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Airport Jobs. LGB.org, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Contact us. VirginOrbit.com , accessed March 19, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Airlines and Destinations. LGB.org, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Where We Fly. LGB.org, accessed March 19, 2019 .
  12. ^ The Economic Impact of the Long Beach Airport 2011. LGB.org, accessed on March 19, 2019 (English).
  13. ^ Long Beach, CA: Long Beach Airport (LGB). Transtats.BTS.gov , accessed March 19, 2019 .
  14. ^ Accident report Lockheed L-049 Constellation NC86511 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 23, 2020.