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In 2001 the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority was created, and assumed jurisdiction over the airport in December 2002. [27] The Authority changed the airport's name from Lindbergh Field to San Diego International Airport in 2003, reportedly considering the new name "a better fit for a major commercial airport."
An HH-3F over CGAS San Diego, 1981. Lindbergh Field opened on October 16, 1934, on Pacific Highway. San Diego International Airport's East Terminal opened on March 6, 1967, and the West Terminal opened July 11, 1979. A new Commuter Terminal opened July 23, 1996.
Flight 182 struck a house at 3611 Nile Street, 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Lindbergh Field, in a residential section of San Diego known as North Park. It then impacted the driveway of the house at a 260 knots (300 mph; 480 km/h), nose-down attitude while banked 50° to the right.
Consolidated Aircraft (and later Convair) had their headquarters in San Diego, California, on the border of Lindbergh Field (KSAN). Consolidated's first design was one of those purchased by Fleet from Dayton-Wright, the TW-3 primary trainer, sold to the U.S. Army as the PT-1 Trusty.
First known as Gibbs Field, the airport opened in July 1940 as an all-way clay and gravel surface airfield.It was founded by William Gibbs (1910–2016). In 1950, the airport was renamed Montgomery Field in honor of John Joseph Montgomery, an aviation pioneer who, in 1884 to 1886, made the first manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flights in the United States from Otay Mesa, south of San ...
The Cross Border Xpress (CBX) is a border crossing and port of entry that connects San Diego in the United States and Tijuana International Airport in Mexico. Operational since December 2015, CBX consists of a terminal building located in the Otay Mesa community that is connected to the airport with a dedicated 120-meter (390 ft) pedestrian bridge that travels over the United States–Mexico ...
A Northern California community came together Friday night to pray for two little boys who underwent surgery and remain in critical condition after they were wounded in a shooting at a small ...
The city of San Diego opened San Diego Municipal Airport/Lindbergh Field in 1928 on land located between the Midway area and San Diego Bay. [8] As a result, aircraft-related industries and businesses continued to be important for the Midway area up until the present day.