Camarillo Airport runway contract advances toward early 2027 work

Ventura County Airports has awarded Granite Construction a $9,226,867.85 construction contract to rehabilitate Runway 8-26 at Camarillo Airport, advancing the project toward a planned early 2027 construction period.

The project calls for runway pavement milling and overlay, crack repairs, lighting rehabilitation, new markings and runway grooving. The project record describes a 62-day construction period and a possible 20-day closure of Runway 8-26, although the reviewed materials do not establish a final closure schedule.

Runway work will address pavement and safety features

Contract work is expected to remove deteriorated pavement through milling, place a new pavement overlay and repair cracks. It also includes rehabilitation of runway lighting, updated markings and grooving of the runway surface.

Those improvements are intended to address the runway’s pavement condition and maintain surface features used for aircraft operations, including markings, lighting and drainage-related grooving.

The project is specific to Runway 8-26. A temporary runway closure should not be interpreted as an airport-wide shutdown; the available documents do not say that all Camarillo Airport operations will stop during construction.

Early 2027 is the planning window

A May 14, 2026 Camarillo/Oxnard Airport Authority presentation identified Camarillo pavement replacement as beginning in 2027. The project record places the runway work in early 2027 and describes a 62-day period, with an incentive tied to shortening a potential 20-day runway closure.

Those dates describe the current construction plan, not a guaranteed final start or completion date. The reviewed materials do not provide a final calendar of closure dates, work phases or operating restrictions for airport tenants and users.

That information will matter to flight operators, maintenance providers, aviation employers, airport tenants and other businesses that depend on access to the runway. The practical effect will depend on how the work is phased and whether aircraft operations can use other airport facilities while Runway 8-26 is unavailable.

Contract is part of a grant-supported capital program

The $9,226,867.85 figure is the construction-contract portion of the runway rehabilitation award. The project record gives a broader estimated project cost of $11,654,313 when design, administration and incentives are included.

Funding identified in the project materials includes a 95% Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program grant, a Caltrans contribution of up to $200,000 and the Airport Enterprise Fund for the remaining share.

The airport-authority presentation also placed the runway work within a larger Camarillo Airport pavement-replacement program. It cited a $28 million runway project beginning in 2027 and total Camarillo capital needs of more than $70 million, but those broader figures should not be confused with Granite Construction’s $9,226,867.85 contract for Runway 8-26.

What airport users should watch for

The immediate change is that the project has moved beyond planning into a construction award. The next key information will be the final schedule for the 2027 work and any official notice setting the dates and operational terms of a Runway 8-26 closure.

Until those details are issued, airport users should treat early 2027 as the planned construction window and the runway closure as a potential construction impact. No final completion date was identified in the reviewed documents.

Sources

• Camarillo/Oxnard Airport Authority presentation, May 14, 2026
• Ventura County Airports Runway 8-26 rehabilitation contract record
• Ventura County FY 2026-27 Five-Year Capital Improvement Program