What happens most

By year

20241 (0 fatal)
20233 (0 fatal)
20223 (1 fatal)
20184 (2 fatal)
20174 (0 fatal)
20122 (0 fatal)
20111 (0 fatal)
20091 (0 fatal)
20071 (0 fatal)
20031 (0 fatal)
19961 (1 fatal)
19931 (1 fatal)
19901 (0 fatal)
19891 (0 fatal)
19811 (0 fatal)

By flight phase

Other / unknown17
Climb3
Landing3
Approach1
Maneuvering1
Takeoff1

Runway incursions

The FAA Runway Safety database records 255 runway incursions at this airport, including 2 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.

Notable investigated occurrences

2018-01-30 (3 fatalities) — 2.3 km
2022-02-20 — McDonnell Douglas Helicopter 500N, CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH (1 fatalities) — 8.8 km
2024-02-11 — Evektor-Aerotechnik Harmony, Sunrise Aviation Company — 0.1 km
2023-04-01 — OC 172 GROUP LLC — 0.1 km
2018-12-23 — TRC Aviation Academy — 0.1 km
2018-09-03 — One Above Aviation — 0.1 km
2017-12-26 — HAC PROPERTIES LLC — 0.1 km
2017-07-29 — Orange County Flight Center — 0.1 km
2017-07-27 — Orbic Air LLC — 0.1 km
2017-06-30 — 0.1 km
2012-06-09 — Orange County Flight Center — 0.1 km
2012-01-08 — 0.1 km

Runways

02L/20R: 5,700 ft, ASP, lighted
02R/20L: 2,886 ft, ASP, lighted

Weather patterns

Fog: 20.897 days/year
Thunderstorms: 4.499 days/year
Snow: 0.1 days/year
Crosswind >15kt: 0.019% of observations
Crosswind >25kt: 0% of observations

Related datasets

Wildlife strikes724

Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.