Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 30; Flight Crew Total 4200; Flight Crew Type 550
Situational Awareness; Fatigue; Confusion
Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Incursion Runway
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Airport; Human Factors
After advising the Controller of airport in sight and cancelling IFR flight plan; Controller requested to squawk 1200 VFR code. We made a visual approach and landing to what we thought was ODO airport. It was not until we had safely landed without any incident to anyone; that we realized that we had landed at MAF instead of ODO. At the time of our landing Midland Airport Tower was closed. The flight was a 3:30 hour flight. We had left our hotel at XA00 local time for a XD00 departure however; the passengers showed up 2 hours late. It is my belief that fatigue was a contributing factor; as well as; accepting a visual in a non-familiar airport at night. Both airports have similar runway alignment and are within a close proximity to each other (ODO Rwy 34 and Rwy 29) (MAF Rwy 34 and Rwy 28). In the future when landing in a non-familiar airport day or night; I will not take a visual approach; instead; I will remain on instruments until positive identification of correct airport has been made or I will allow the controller to vector me to final.
On roll out found that the taxiways did not match our airport diagram and found we have landed at the wrong airport MAF! Both airports have similar runway alignment and are about 9 nm apart! Class C & D were not violated due to service hours of operation. Lesson well learned.
CE500 Flight Crew on an IFR flight to ODO; late at night; reports canceling IFR and accepting a visual approach. After landing they discover they have landed at MAF.