# Imperial County Airport (IPL / KIPL)

**Imperial County Airport** (IATA: IPL, ICAO: KIPL) is a medium airport in Imperial, California, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,308 ft (1,618 m). It is operated by County of Imperial. In 2025 it handled 7 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kipl

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: IPL / KIPL
- FAA: IPL
- Type: Medium airport
- Operator: County of Imperial
- Serves: Imperial, California, United States
- Opened: Apr 1940
- Elevation: -54 ft / -16 m
- Coordinates: 32.8354, -115.5740
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 5,308 ft / 1,618 m
- Instrument procedures: 2 approaches
- Passengers: 6,548 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-8/-7 · America/Los_Angeles
- Website: http://www.co.imperial.ca.us/Airport/Airport.htm
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_County_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3016678
- Weather station: KIPL
- Ident: KIPL

## Timeline

- Apr 1940: Imperial County Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 14/32 | 5,308 ft / 1,618 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 153° / 333° | yes |
| 08/26 | 4,501 ft / 1,372 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 090° / 270° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/00790AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 4,979 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 7,907 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 11,830 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2018 | 12,775 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2019 | 10,756 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2020 | 5,232 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 9,151 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 15,326 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 12,190 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 7,398 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 6,548 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

4 destinations in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (2)

- [LAX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/klax.md) Los Angeles International Airport · United States · 180 mi / 290 km · Southern Airways Express
- [PHX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kphx.md) Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport · United States · 211 mi / 339 km · Southern Airways Express

### Cargo (2)

- [SAN](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ksan.md) San Diego International Airport · United States · 94 mi / 151 km · FedEx Express
- [ONT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kont.md) Ontario International Airport · United States · 144 mi / 232 km · Ameriflight

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from IPL, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- 9X [Southern Airways Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/southern-airways-express) · 2

### Cargo (2)

- A8 [Ameriflight](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/ameriflight) · 1
- FX [FedEx Express](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/fedex-express) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 7K (2025) | #2,855 of 3,974 | #729 in North America | #525 in US |
| Longest runway | 5,308 ft / 1,618 m | #5,724 of 29,858 | #1,876 in North America | #1,510 in US |
| Elevation | -54 ft / -16 m | #43,376 of 43,403 | #19,427 in North America | #15,766 in US |
| Age | Opened 1940 | =1,114 of 15,079 | =366 in North America | =338 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ASOS | ASOS | 132.175 |
| CNTR | LOS ANGELES CNTR | 128.600 |
| RDO | SAN DIEGO RDO | 122.500 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.700 |

## Nearby airports

- [NJK](https://dromopedia.com/airports/knjk.md) El Centro NAF Airport (Vraciu Field) · 5.7 mi / 9.2 km
- [MXL](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mmml.md) General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada International Airport · 24 mi / 38 km
- [YUM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/knyl.md) Yuma International Airport / Marine Corps Air Station Yuma · 57 mi / 93 km
- [TRM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/ktrm.md) Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport · 64 mi / 104 km
- [BLH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kblh.md) Blythe Airport · 73 mi / 118 km
- [TIJ](https://dromopedia.com/airports/mmtj.md) General Abelardo L. Rodriguez International Airport · 84 mi / 135 km

## In collections

- [Below sea level](https://dromopedia.com/collections/below-sea-level) #28

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Imperial County Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_County_Airport&oldid=1376380368), revision of 23 Sep 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kipl/data