Palo Alto Airport

Palo Alto Airport (KPAO) is a medium airport in Palo Alto, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KPAO or IATA code PAO. It sits in North America.

Palo Alto Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 2,441-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 2,441 ft (744 m), a constrained-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the King Air, PC-12, and other short-field turboprops. In practice this restricts most jet operations; turboprops and short-field specialists only.

Palo Alto Airport sits near sea level at 4 ft.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Without scheduled airline traffic, the field tends to be quieter and more flexible for charter and corporate operations — a useful characteristic for early morning, late night, or short-notice flights that would be impractical at a hub.

SkyAccess currently tracks 51 departing and 98 arriving private-jet legs at KPAO across the next six months of operator inventory. 2 aircraft from 2 operators are based here or fly through regularly, so most empty-leg supply originates from a local fleet rather than out-of-town repositioning.

Regional fields like KPAO are a meaningful share of US private aviation — closer to the trip's actual origin or destination than the nearest major hub, with shorter ramp-to-cabin times that are the main reason owners and brokers prefer them.

Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, United States, near the south end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore.