Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport

Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport (KHHR) is a medium airport in Hawthorne, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KHHR or IATA code HHR. It sits in North America.

Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

The longest runway measures 4,884 ft (1,489 m), a light-jet-class field. Representative aircraft that operate comfortably here include the Phenom 300, Citation CJ4, and Learjet 75. In practice this limits operations to light jets, turboprops, and short-field-capable aircraft.

Jack Northrop Field Hawthorne Municipal Airport sits near sea level at 66 ft.

Local operations run on America/Los_Angeles. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 603 departing and 509 arriving private-jet legs at KHHR across the next six months of operator inventory. 8 aircraft from 14 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 KHHR 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.

Hawthorne Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Hawthorne, California, United States. US air taxi firm Archer Aviation signed a long-term lease to develop a base for urban air mobility and plans to use it as a base for passenger-carrying operations for the 2028 Summer Olympics.