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AirCal MD-80 jet at John Wayne Airport, 1981. After the Orange County Airport was renamed John Wayne Airport on June 20, 1979, [15] the John Wayne Associates commissioned sculptor Robert Summers to create a bronze statue of "the Duke". The 9-foot (2.7 m) statue, created at Hoka Hey Foundry in Dublin, Texas, was dedicated to the County on ...
John Wayne Airport (5 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Airports in Orange County, California" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The population of Orange County in 1967 was about 1.2mm, up from only 216,000 in 1950; Orange County was the fastest growing in the country. Air travel in California was then dominated by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA). Air California was designed to do what PSA would not: serve Orange County. Airport officials had asked all major west coast ...
The Airport fire is burning near homes in south Orange County and has forced evacuations. Here are details on the fire. The fire. The blaze started about 1:30 p.m. Monday along the 32200 block of ...
Fullerton Municipal Airport (IATA: FUL, ICAO: KFUL, FAA LID: FUL) is a regional relief airport in Orange County, California. It is owned and operated by the City of Fullerton. [1] The airport is in the southwestern corner of Fullerton on Commonwealth Avenue, northeast of the junction of the Santa Ana (I-5) and Riverside (SR 91) Freeways. The ...
Orange County Airport is the original name of the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, Orange County, California Orange County Airport may also refer to: Orange County Airport (New York) , a general aviation airport in Montgomery, Orange County, New York
The Orange County Airport was also selected as the site for the Headquarters Squadron originally located at Moffett Field. Arrangements were also made for the Air Corps lease five acres of land for a small facility at the adjacent airport to serve as a sort of "taxi service" for the Army Air Force officials to permit them to contact various ...
The airport's 6000 foot main runway, Runway 7/25, wasn't long enough for early jet airliners such as the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880, so the city and Orange County governments lobbied the U.S. Air Force to convert McCoy Air Force Base, a Strategic Air Command B-52 base about eight miles to the south, to a civil-military airport ...