General Aviation Center:

The General Aviation Center is located at 3301 Airport Drive, just west of the FAA control tower.  The GAC is the facility from which the City staff operates, and serves three main functions:

Airport Administration (Facilities)

Airport Operations (Airfield)

Noise Abatement

The General Aviation Center also includes a pilots lounge, pre-flight preparation room with satellite weather computer, and a meeting room, which is available for rental.  Tours of the General Aviation Center and the Airport are available upon request.

Runways:

29R-11L 5,000' by 150' asphalt paving
29L-11R 3,000' by 75' asphalt paving

33 Degrees	48 Minutes	12.09 Seconds	North Latitude
118 Degrees	20 Minutes	19.31 Seconds	West Longitude

These two runways are capable of handling a maximum aircraft weight of 20,000 lbs. per wheel. The combination of length and weight capacity makes the runways near ideal for general aviation, but are not recommended for air carrier type aircraft.

The airport is 101' above sea level, and is served by an FAA Control Tower. Modem navigational safety aids are in use to assure safe takeoff and landing operations.

Operations:

Each takeoff and landing is considered an operation. Local operations are those which originate and terminate at Torrance. Transient operations are landings which were not preceded by a takeoff from our airport.

In 1980 there were 185,849 local operations and 170,143 transient operations (355,992 total operations). By the end of the decade local operations had fallen to 112,774 (-39 %), and transients to 130,550 (-23%), a total of 243,324 operations. The decline in operations from the 428.000 recorded in 1974 is even more dramatic.

Noise:

Noise has also declined over the years. Since the inception of the City's Noise Abatement Program, less than one half of one percent of all operations result in a noise violation. Types of aircraft that can not meet the stringent noise controls are banned from the airport.

Hangars:

The City owns 339 hangars. In addition, there are currently 64 independent hangars owned and operated by private companies.  More hangars are slated for development in the near future.

Tie Downs:

There are a total of 173 tie downs, of which 137 are permanent-City tie downs.

Aircraft:

The City limits based aircraft to 825 airplanes. Based aircraft does not include transient aircraft which visit the field for a brief time, and which may be parked/tied down at an FBO site. Some types of aircraft are banned from the airport because they are felt to be "too noisy" and incapable of meeting the City's stringent noise ordinance.