Ramona Airport

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Ramona Airport is a public airport located two miles (3 km) west of the central business district of Ramona, in San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned by the County of San Diego.The airport is mostly used for general aviation, the California Department of Forestry (CDF) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) jointly operate a fire attack base.The Ramona Air Fair is a popular airshow held every year in June.Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ramona Airport is assigned RNM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.Facilities and aircraftRamona Airport covers an area of 342acre which contains one runway (9/27: 5,001 x 150 ft.) and one helipad (H1: 340 x 66 ft).For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 82,133 aircraft operations, an average of 225 per day: 98% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military. There are 195 aircraft based at this airport: 86% single engine, 8% multi-engine, 1% jet aircraft and 5% helicopters.