Long Beach Airport (Daugherty Field)

Long Beach Airport (KLGB) sits in Long Beach, California, 22 miles south of downtown LA and 12 miles north of John Wayne. The field handles modest commercial service (Southwest, JetBlue, Delta, Hawaiian) and a substantial flow of business aviation — Long Beach is one of the principal LA-area bizjet alternatives to KVNY, with the structural advantage of no curfew (Long Beach's curfew was overturned in 2002) and substantially less congestion. The primary runway 12/30 is 10,003 feet — comfortable for ultra-long-range jets at MTOW. Three FBOs (Signature, Ross Aviation, and Long Beach Airport FBO) handle business movements. Field elevation is 60 feet, no density-altitude concerns. The dominant operational considerations are the surrounding airspace complexity (Long Beach sits between LAX and KSNA Class B and Class C airspace), summer marine-layer effects, and the steady volume of mixed GA / commuter / commercial traffic. KLGB is the structural answer for charter into the LA south bay (Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach south end), and is favored by night-curfew-sensitive operators when KVNY restrictions are an issue. Ground time to downtown LA is 30–45 minutes via 710; downtown Long Beach is 5–10; the Queen Mary is 10.