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Las Vegas Municipal Airport (IATA: LVS, ICAO: KLVS, FAA LID: LVS) is five miles (8 km) northeast of Las Vegas, in San Miguel County, New Mexico. [1] The airport was a stop on the first air route between Denver and El Paso that began in 1929. Mid-Continental Air Express first flew the route with stops at Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Las Vegas ...
The land for the airport was purchased on December 21, 1925, by the Rockwell Brothers. [1] Airmail service was initiated on April 17, 1926, from Los Angeles, California, by Western Air Express. Western continued to use the field until 1929 when they moved to the new Alamo Landing Field at the site of the current Nellis Air Force Base. [4]
In 1968, slot machines were first installed at the airport. The Las Vegas and Reno airports are the only two airports in the United States with slot machines. [81] [82] Terminal 1 and Concourse D also house exhibits of the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum, which covers the history of aviation in southern Nevada. [83] [84]
After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...
Map of Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport in Clark County, Nevada. Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport (SNSA), previously known as Ivanpah Valley Airport, is a new commercial airport in development by the Clark County Department of Aviation (CCDOA), located along Interstate 15 (I-15) between the towns of Jean and Primm in Clark County, Nevada, approximately 23 miles (37 km) south of the Las ...
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Several proposals for new types of packaging that served the display-size of the longbox and theft-prevention goals were developed. [ citation needed ] A common replacement consisted of locking plastic frames (security keepers) containing anti-theft detection strips, designed to roughly meet the same dimensions as the longbox to fit into the ...
Sony DADC's first plant, in Terre Haute, Indiana, opened May 2, 1983, [1] and produced its first CD, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., in September 1984. [2] It was the first CD manufacturer in the United States, is the company's principal CD manufacturing facility, and is the company's research and development center.