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Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (1878–1958), one of Los Angeles's first female pilots James Floyd Smith (1884–1956), test pilot and instructor for Glenn Martin and manufacturer of parachutes. He built and flew his own plane in 1912 and invented the free-type manually operated parachute for the Army in 1918.
Los Angeles Fighter Wing (4th Air Force) Also used by Technical Training Command Now: Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX) Also: Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles. Santa Monica Municipal Airport, Santa Monica, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Santa Monica. Delivery airfield for Douglas Aircraft (C-54)
From this modest beginning, plans were soon hatched by local entrepreneurs to establish an airport with commercial possibilities a little further down below his field. In 1923 the 112-acre (0.45 km 2) Glendale Municipal Airport opened with a 100 ft (30 m)-wide paved runway 3,800 ft (1,200 m) long, and came to be renamed "Grand Central Air Terminal" when it was purchased by other venture ...
Whiteman Airport (IATA: WHP, ICAO: KWHP, FAA LID: WHP) is a general aviation airport in the northeastern San Fernando Valley community of Pacoima, in the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. The airport was founded as Whiteman Air Park in 1946 on a farm by pilot Marvin Whiteman Sr. as a non-tower controlled, private airport. Later ...
The airport is operated by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), a branch of the Los Angeles city government, which also operates Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Van Nuys is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world, with the airport's two parallel runways averaging over 230,000 takeoffs and landings annually.
San Gabriel Valley (10 C, 105 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Valleys of Los Angeles County, California" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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California Wing of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the highest echelon of Civil Air Patrol in the state of California. California Wing headquarters are located in Van Nuys, California . [ 1 ] California Wing consists of over 3,000 cadet and adult members at over 77 locations across the state of California.