Facilities and Aircraft
Half Moon Bay Airport covers an area of 325 acres (132 ha) at an elevation of 66 feet (20 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 12/30 with an asphalt/concrete surface measuring 5,000 by 150 feet (1,524 x 46 m).
Half Moon Bay Airport provides a variety of emergency service and response functions including: Air ambulance and Medevac flights; law enforcement and homeland security patrols; Coast Guard sea-rescue operations; and use as a disaster relief staging site for the airlifting of emergency supplies in the event that roads are closed during a disaster or emergency.
The Half Moon Bay Airport is home to approximately 80 aircraft and several aviation related businesses. The airport is self-funded through airport user and business fees and receives no money from the county’s General Fund.
For the 12-month period ending September 11, 2008, the airport had 60,150 aircraft operations, an average of 164 per day: 99.8% general aviation and 0.2% air taxi. At that time there were 40 aircraft based at this airport: 93% single-engine, 5% multi-engine and 3% helicopter.
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