General William J Fox Airfield

General William J Fox Airfield (KWJF) is a medium airport in Lancaster, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KWJF or IATA code WJF. It sits in North America.

General William J Fox Airfield is a regional airport primarily serving general aviation, charter, and corporate flight departments. The 7,201-foot runway means it is well-suited as a dedicated bizjet field, free from airline scheduling pressure.

The longest runway measures 7,201 ft (2,195 m), a heavy-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Gulfstream G550, Falcon 7X, and Bombardier Global 5500. In practice this most heavy and super-midsize jets operate here without restriction.

General William J Fox Airfield lies at 2,351 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 currently tracks 526 departing and 437 arriving private-jet legs at KWJF across the next six months of operator inventory. 9 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

Regional fields like KWJF 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.

General William J. Fox Airfield is a county-owned, public airport in Los Angeles County, California, five miles northwest of Lancaster, California, United States. Locally known as Fox Field, the airport serves the Antelope Valley. The airport is named after Brigadier General William J. Fox, "a Marine war hero, a movie stunt man, the first Los Angeles County engineer and, for 20 years after his retirement, a cowboy."