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The airport is named after Brigadier General William J. Fox, "a Marine war hero, a movie stunt man, the first Los Angeles County engineer and, for 20 years after his retirement, a cowboy." [2] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. [3]
English: Map of terminals, boarding areas, and runways at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Simplified vector shapes extracted from FAA source PDF and colors added. = Terminal 1 = Terminal 2 = Terminal 3
The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.
Map of LAX showing Terminals 1 through 8, plus the Tom Bradley International Terminal (B) and the Regional Terminal (R) Los Angeles International Airport has 161 gates in nine passenger terminals arranged in the shape of the letter U or a horseshoe. On the landside of the airport, LAX Shuttle route A buses allow passengers to move between all ...
[15] [14] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [17] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
FAA Airport Diagrams; note that these change every 28 days. Taken from PDF on FAA site and converted to SVG using en:Wikipedia:How to draw SVG circuits using Xcircuit. Author: Produced by the National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO), a department of the United States en:Federal Aviation Administration.
In 1930, the facility was renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and mostly served general aviation. The facility was pressed into service as a military airfield during World War II. The airport started its conversion into a major passenger airport in 1946, and in 1949 became Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The current U-shaped ...
Stephen King's 1990 horror novella The Langoliers and its 1995 movie adaptation feature LAX as the starting point and ending destination for the protagonists.; The Japan Airlines commercials featuring Janet Jackson were filmed in LAX to promote their Executive class (business class) products on the then-brand new Boeing 747-400.