McClellan-Palomar Airport

ICAO KCRQ33.1283°N 117.2800°W331 ft / 101 mMedium airport

CRQ - FAA airport diagram — United States Federal Aviation Administration · Public domain · Commons

McClellan-Palomar Airport (IATA: CLD, ICAO: KCRQ) is a medium airport in Carlsbad, California, United States. It opened in May 1959. It has one runway, 4,897 ft (1,493 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 136 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1959–1959

MAY 1959

OpenedMcClellan-Palomar Airport opens.

From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · 1 helipad · FAA diagram PDF

06/24079° / 259° · LIT

LENGTH4,897 ft1,493 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2017–2025

12K

34K

136K

172122232425

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

LASHarry Reid International AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)382 km237 mi SCFScottsdale AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)502 km312 mi OAKOakland San Francisco Bay AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)679 km422 mi

Seasonal2

MMHMammoth Yosemite AirportUnited States · Advanced Air520 km323 mi RNOReno Tahoe International AirportUnited States · JSX (airline)743 km462 mi

Most destinationsJSX (airline) 4Advanced Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CLD. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “McClellan–Palomar Airport” (revision of 15 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers136K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,704of 3,974 · #381 North America · #252 US Longest runway4,897 ft1,493 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=7,337of 29,823 · #2,762 North America · #2,268 US Elevation331 ft101 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#30,530of 43,341 · #14,182 North America · #11,940 US AgeOpened 19592026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,466of 15,079 · =3,045 North America · =2,970 US Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2,325 US

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

7 channels

A/DSOCAL APP/DEP127.300

ATISATIS120.150

CLDCLNC DEL134.850

CTAFCTAF118.600

GNDGND121.800

RDOSAN DIEGO RDO115.300

TWRTWR118.600