CE560 captain reported on visual approach; misaligning with wrong airport due to haze and smoke.

Attributes
ACN	1504688
Time
Date	201712
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Citation V/Ultra/Encore (C560)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Approach Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 7400 Flight Crew Type 1200
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Deviation - Track / Heading All Types

Narrative:

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.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CE560 Captain reported on visual approach; misaligning with wrong airport due to haze and smoke.

Narrative: 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.

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