Aviation/Century station

{{Short description|Light rail station in Los Angeles, California}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}

{{Infobox station

| style = Los Angeles Metro Rail

| name = Aviation/Century

| symbol_location = losangeles

| symbol = C

| symbol2 = K

| image = Aviation Century station platform, opening day.jpg

| image_caption = Aviation/Century station platform on opening day, November 3, 2024

| address = 5601 Century Boulevard

| borough = Los Angeles, California

| coordinates = {{coord|33.945598|-118.378573|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| owned = Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

| platform = 1 island platform

| tracks = 2

| connections = {{Unbulleted list

| Beach Cities Transit

| GTrans

| Los Angeles Metro Bus

| Metro Micro

| Torrance Transit

}}

| structure = Elevated

| parking =

| bicycle = Racks

| accessible = Yes

| status =

| website =

| opened = {{Start date|2024|11|03}}

| former =

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system=Los Angeles Metro Rail

|line1=C|left1=LAX/Metro Transit Center|to-left1=LAX/Metro Transit Center|right1=Aviation/Imperial

|line2=K|left2=LAX/Metro Transit Center|right2=Mariposa}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-zoom = 14

}}

Aviation/Century station is an elevated light rail station on the C and K lines of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located alongside Aviation Boulevard above its intersection with Century Boulevard, located in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Construction on the station was completed with the rest of the initial line in late 2022,{{Cite web |title=Aviation/Century Station |url=https://kline.metro.net/about-aviation-century/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |publisher=Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710183547/https://kline.metro.net/about-aviation-century/ |url-status=live }} but its opening was delayed to November 3, 2024 due to construction on the LAX Automated People Mover and the LAX/Metro Transit Center. Aviation/Century is the second-newest station in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system after LAX/Metro Transit Center, which opened on June 6, 2025.{{Cite web |last=Hymon |first=Steve |date=October 14, 2024 |title=Changes are coming Sunday, Nov. 3, to the C and K Lines as we open the new Aviation/Century Station |url=https://thesource.metro.net/changes-are-coming-soon-to-the-c-and-k-lines-as-we-open-the-new-aviation-century-station/ |access-date=October 16, 2024 |website=Metro The Source |language=en-US}}

The Santa Fe's Century railroad bridge was demolished on July 25, 2014, to make way for the station.{{Cite news |date=2014-06-23 |title='Century Crush' bridge demolition near LAX will slow traffic to airport in July |language=en-US |work=Los Angeles Daily News |agency=City News Service |url=https://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140623/century-crush-bridge-demolition-near-lax-will-slow-traffic-to-airport-in-july |access-date=2023-03-28}}