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Watsonville Municipal Airport
KWVI / WVIWatsonville, CaliforniaELEV 163 FT
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Field elevation
Nearest alternate
Field standing
19 nm
To the nearest alternate
Salinas Municipal Airport (SNS) — 6 fields within 50 nm.
Overview
Watsonville Municipal Airport (KWVI / WVI) sits in Watsonville, California, where it functions as a general aviation field. The field lies at an elevation of 163 feet. The field has no airline schedules, which keeps it focused on private and general aviation flying.
Charter departments call it home: GaryAir bases aircraft at WVI. Useful alternates include Salinas Municipal Airport (SNS, 19 nm), Monterey Regional Airport (MRY, 21 nm), and Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC, 26 nm).
Quotes for flights out of WVI vary with aircraft type, repositioning, and schedule flexibility. Use the cost estimator to model a trip from WVI, or browse verified operators serving the area.
Field capability
ICAO
KWVI
IATA
WVI
FAA / Local
WVI
Elevation
163 ft
Coordinates
36.9357° N · 121.7900° W
Airspace
G · GolfClass G — GolfUncontrolled field — no tower. Pilots self-announce and sequence themselves on the common traffic advisory frequency.Source: FAA NASR class airspace
Size
Small
Scheduled svc
No
Elevation vs CA fields
state range -210–7,135 ft
At 163 ft, WVI sits lower than 61% of the 156 California fields on the register.
Based charter operators1
Access & alternates
Closest alternate fields by great-circle distance — every listing links to its own field brief.
- 19nmSNSSalinas Municipal AirportSalinas
- 21nmMRYMonterey Regional AirportMonterey
- 26nmSJCNorman Y. Mineta San Jose International AirportSan Jose
- 31nmNUQMoffett Federal AirfieldMountain View
- 35nmPAOPalo Alto AirportPalo Alto
- 41nmSQLSan Carlos AirportSan Carlos
Location
Open the full mapKWVI · Watsonville Municipal Airport · Watsonville, CA
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