Citation V/Ultra/Encore (C560)
Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80; Flight Crew Total 7400; Flight Crew Type 1200
Confusion
Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Returned To Clearance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Weather; Environment - Non Weather Related; Airport
On a IFR flight plan into ZZZ I loaded in the approach for vector to final; I call runway in sight to my copilot and he contact approach and we were cleared for the visual and we contacted the tower and we were cleared to land; at that time I had activated the approach with the CDI showing center line of runway which is about a mile south of ZZZ2. With the haze I mistaken ZZZ2 for ZZZ at about 1000 AGL I realized that was not ZZZ; so we contacted approach and let them know of the confusion with the wrong airport. We climb back up to 2000 and continued the approach into ZZZ without incident.
CE560 Captain reported on visual approach; misaligning with wrong airport due to haze and smoke.