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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 43 airports
Best airports in Los Angeles
The 10 most notable airports in Los Angeles, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Atlantic Aviation BUR
10750 Sherman Way
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.420, percentile 100 of 43
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2
Surf Air
12101 Crenshaw Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.314, percentile 97.62 of 43
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3
Hawthorne Hangar Operations
3507 Jack Northrop Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.264, percentile 95.24 of 43
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4
Compton/woodley Airport
901 W Alondra Blvd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.263, percentile 92.86 of 43
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5
Atlantic Aviation LAX
6411 W Imperial Hwy
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 90.48 of 43
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6
LAPD Hooper Heliport
481 m from Union Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 88.1 of 43
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7
Hollywood Burbank Jet Center
2800 N Clybourn Ave
683 m from Burbank Airport-HSR station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 85.71 of 43
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8
Hangar 2 Burbank Airport
4561 W Empire Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 83.33 of 43
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9
Burbank Airport
2940 N Clybourn Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 80.95 of 43
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10
American Eagle Remote Terminal
LAX Airport, 1 World Way
602 m from East CTA station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.167, percentile 78.57 of 43
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).