KIPL is the ICAO code for Imperial County Airport (IATA IPL), located in Imperial, CA.
Imperial County Airport (KIPL) is a medium airport in Imperial, CA. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code KIPL or IATA code IPL. It sits in North America.
Imperial County 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 5,308 ft (1,618 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.
Imperial County Airport is below sea level at 54 ft below mean sea level.
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 281 departing and 167 arriving private-jet legs at KIPL across the next six months of operator inventory. 5 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.
Regional fields like KIPL 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.