Brown Field Municipal Airport (IATA: SDM, ICAO: KSDM, FAA LID: SDM) is located near San Diego, California and named in honor of United States Navy Commander Melville S. Brown, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1936. Its FAA/IATA airport code of SDM probably comes from "San Diego Municipal". Formerly a Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS), it is now a port of entry from Mexico. It is sometimes staffed by the U.S. Customs Service, but only upon the request of incoming pilots to the FAA. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 410 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1123 pixel, file size: 188 KB, MIME type: image/png) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Brown Field Municipal Airport ... 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It first opened in 1918 as East Field, later becoming NAAS Otay Mesa and then NAAS Brown Field, both in 1943. It was last used by the U.S. Navy in 1962, before becoming converted for general aviation use. It's primary runway is 7,972-feet long. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... General aviation (abbr. ...

Caveat

Tijuana Airport is just over 1 nm to the south, with a similar length and a slightly different runway orientation (09 / 27) but is clearly a commercial passenger facility. General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport (IATA: TIJ, ICAO: MMTJ) in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, is Mexicos second northernmost airport after Mexicalis. ... A nautical mile or sea mile is a unit of length. ...

In addition, a precision approach is not possible to either runway end due too steep rising terrain (elevation 3,600-feet) less than 6 miles east of the airport.

Notable accidents

• March 16, 1991, Seven members of Reba McEntire's band and her road manager were among 10 people who died in the crash of a plane that departed from Brown Field. The aircraft impacted terrain on Otay Mountain northeast of the airport.^[1]

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See also

• Air/Space America 88

Air/Space America 88 was an aviation exposition and airshow held at San Diego Californias Brown Field in late May of 1988. ...

References

• City of San Diego: Brown Field
• FAA Airport Master Record for SDM (Form 5010 PDF)

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External links

• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF)
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KSDM
  • ASN Accident history for SDM
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart for KSDM