GA SMT MADE EARLY MORNING TKOF FROM CLOSED ARPT.

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DEPARTED DAY BEFORE FOR FLT TO PHX DEPARTING FROM VNY WITH STOPS AT TOA; ORANGE COUNTY/JOHN WAYNE TO PICK UP PAX. OBTAINED WX BRIEFING FROM SANTA BARBARA FSS AND ASKED BRIEFER IF HE HAD ANY INFO ON TOA BEING CLOSED TO DEPS AT ANY HRS AS I WAS UNABLE TO SEE ANY IN FAC FLT DIRECTORY. HE REPLIED THE ONLY RESTRICTIONS HE WAS AWARE OF WERE NOISE ABATEMENT. UPON RETURNING FROM PHX ON AN IFR FLT PLAN INTO JOHN WAYNE; I REQUESTED FROM COAST APCH A NEW PLAN TO BE FILED; ENRTE; TO TOA. I RECEIVED NEW CLRNC ON GND AT JOHN WAYNE TO TOA. UPON BECOMING AIRBORNE I REQUESTED ANOTHER FLT PLAN FROM TOA TO VNY TO BE PICKED UP ON GND AT TOA. COAST APCH ADVISED ME TO CONTACT LA APCH. ON GND AT TOA; I WAS UNABLE TO RAISE LA ON RADIO SO I TAXIED TO A PHONE AND WAS GIVEN A CLRNC TO DEPART WITH A 15 MIN BLOCK TIME. AFTER DEPARTING TOA MY PAX SAID; 'DID YOU SEE THAT VAN? I THINK HE WAS CHKING YOUR AIRPLANE.' AFTER ARRIVING VAN NUYS I AGAIN CHKED MY FACS DIRECTORY AND DISCOVERED THAT TOA WAS IN FACT CLOSED WHEN I TOOK OFF. MY MISTAKE HAD BEEN THAT ALTHOUGH I HAD READ RWY 29L WAS CLOSED; I HAD MISSED THE HRS OF ARPT OPS. I'M SURPRISED COAST APCH OR LA APCH DID NOT SAY ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT IT; OR DENY ME A CLRNC OUT. IN THE FUTURE I SHALL TAKE GREAT PAINS TO TRIPLE CHK SMALL PRINTING IN THE FACS DIRECTORY. I THINK ARPT HRS SHOULD BE IN BOLDER PRINT.