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The original Coalinga Municipal Airport was about 0.5 mile (1 km) north of the town center, just north of Cambridge Avenue and west of East Elm Avenue. It opened sometime in the 1920s. [ 2 ] As of 2024 [update] traces of it could still be seen on aerial photographs and satellite images.
The New Coalinga Municipal Airport is host to the annual Northern California Aerobatic contest. [27] This early June event is typically the largest of five annual California regional aerobatic contests sanctioned by the International Aerobatic Club. It relocated to Coalinga from Paso Robles in 2013. [28]
This airfield is now closed, as a new Airport was built called the New Coalinga Municipal Airport. [ 14 ] Porterville Army Airfield , located at 36°01′46″N 119°03′43″W / 36.02944°N 119.06194°W / 36.02944; -119.06194 was used buas an Auxiliary
Orange County Regional History Center will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz musician Sam Rivers with a panel, a pop-up photo gallery and a concert in October. Rivers died at ...
It is known that Army Air Corps units trained at the airport during the 1930s. Later, during World War II, the airport was used an auxiliary training airfield for Minter Field Army Airfield, and Lemoore Army Airfield, California. It was released to civil use at the end of the war, and was the municipal airport for the local area.
New construction is taking place at VanStory History Village, which is part of The NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction, on Tuesday, July 2, 2024.
Here is a look at some of the key dates in the airport's history. ... Gateway that leads to the front door of the airport. Later in the year, a new seven-gate $15.5 million concourse by U.S ...
Delivery airport for Lockheed Aircraft (P-38, B-17, PV-2, C-69) Also used by Technical Training Command Now: Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Long Beach Army Airfield, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Long Beach; 6th Ferrying Group (Air Transport Command) Delivery airport for Douglas Aircraft (B-17, A-26, C-47) 348th Army Air Force Base Unit