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On 14 February 2020, the Guinness World Record for the longest-distance wheelie in an airplane was set in a Cessna 172 on the airport's runway 17. The pilot kept the plane's nose wheel from touching the asphalt surface for a distance of 14,319 feet (4,364 m). [9] [10]
Besides the 8,400-square-foot (780 m 2) terminal building, [4] built in 2015, there are nearly 400 aircraft storage hangar units, a corporate-style hangar building containing 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2) of space and an aircraft storage shelter.
Half Moon Bay field became an outlying field for Naval Air Station Moffett Field, to furnish facilities for utility aircraft providing target towing service for the Anti-Aircraft Training Center, Point Montara, California. San Mateo County acquired the airport from the Navy in 1947. It is an important business, transportation and emergency ...
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial air transport, demand for commercial aircraft storage increased dramatically in 2020.Furthermore, many aircraft which had initially been planned for short term storage were ultimately stored long term or even scrapped altogether, requiring maintenance work to prepare the planes for the different plans.
During World War II the federal government took over the airport: From 1938 until 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps and the California National Guard used 218 acres as an aerial observation training center; In 1940 the War Department added hard surface runways and lights, barracks, hangars, and mechanic shops. [4]
There’s a bit of a NorCal vs SoCal divide.
The new base would also include a 5,842-square-foot (542.7 m 2), 22-bed barracks building, a 4,812-square-foot (447.0 m 2) three-bay vehicle storage facility and shop; a 4,646-square-foot (431.6 m 2), two-story operations building containing pilot facilities, administration and dispatch center; a 15,300-square-foot (1,420 m 2), two-bay open ...
Police in California arrested a man for allegedly stealing a small aircraft before crashing onto a beach and leaving the scene. Deputies received a report of a small airplane landing “near or on ...