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# Santa Monica Airport handles 140,000 takeoffs and landings a year
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/did-you-know-20051026/
- Published: 2005-10-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:02:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

There are 140,000 landings and take offs that occur at SM Airport per year. There are 770,00 at LAX.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 26, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/102605.pdf?ref=smdp.com)