Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport (KPMD) is a medium airport in Palmdale, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KPMD or IATA code PMD. It sits in North America.

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 12,002-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 12,002 ft (3,658 m), a ultra-long-range-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G650, Bombardier Global 7500, and Dassault Falcon 8X. In practice this transcontinental and transoceanic operations without performance penalties.

Palmdale Regional Airport / USAF Plant 42 Airport lies at 2,543 ft elevation.

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 inventory for KPMD updates continuously as operators publish new empty legs and one-way repositioning trips. Pricing on each leg is available with a free account, and an inventory alert will email you the moment a leg appears on the route you care about.

Regional fields like KPMD 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.

Palmdale Regional Airport is an airport in Palmdale, California, United States. The city of Palmdale took over the airport at the end of 2013, managing it via the Palmdale Airport Authority. The airport currently does not have any scheduled passenger airline service.