Ocean City Municipal Airport guide

Ocean City Municipal Airport is a public-use airport in West Ocean City, Maryland, about three miles southwest of the resort town it serves. It is reached from Route 611 and sits on the mainland side of the bays, close to the road routes that feed the Delmarva beaches. The IATA code is OCE, while the FAA and ICAO identifiers are OXB and KOXB, an unusual mismatch for a U.S. airport.

The town of Ocean City owns the field, which opened in October 1960. It has two paved runways: 14/32 is 4,074 feet long and 2/20 is 3,204 feet, both 75 feet wide. Federal data for the 12 months to May 2023 count 38,856 operations, about 106 a day. General aviation accounts for 97 percent, air taxi for 1 percent and the military for 2 percent. The airport has 51 based aircraft, mostly single-engine.

No airline currently flies here. Allegheny Commuter and Piedmont Airlines ran flights to Baltimore in the early 1980s, but scheduled service has since ended. Ocean Aviation is the fixed-base operator, and it also runs a Cessna pilot center and an FAA Part 141 flight academy. Visitors can book biplane rides, helicopter rides and skydiving. In summer, traffic rises with the beach crowds.