Camarillo Airport is a public airport located three miles (5 km) west of the central business district of Camarillo, a city in Ventura County, California, United States. The airport has one runway and exclusively serves privately operated general aviation and executive aircraft with no scheduled commercial service. A separate airfield in the southwest quadrant of the airport is for exclusive use of Light-Sport Aircraft and Ultralights.According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, it is categorized as a reliever airport.HistoryCamarillo Airport was originally established in 1942 when the California State Highway Department constructed an auxiliary landing field with a 5000ft runway, which was later extended to 8000ft in 1951 to accommodate what by then had developed into Oxnard Air Force Base.In the years following the closure of Oxnard AFB in January 1970, the County of Ventura actively pursued the acquisition of the former military base property from the Department of Defense for commercial airport use. This initiative ran into public opposition, opposed primarily by local residents concerned about the noise of growing commercial traffic. In 1976, the transfer of the airport was finally approved, provided the runway length was shortened to 6,000 ft by displacing the runway threshold on one end. By 1985, the airport was entirely managed by the Ventura County Department of Airports.
