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The airport was opened in September 1942 as Porterville Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force as a training base during World War II. It was a sub-base to Lemoore AAF, being used as a pilot training facility. Improvements to the site included a fueling system utilizing nine underground storage tanks.
Army Air Forces Basic Flying School / Army Air Force Pilot School, Basic, 24 March 1942–25 April 1944 10th Base Headquarters an Air Base Squadron, 12 July 1942–25 April 1944 433rd Army Air Force Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station, Fighter), 25 April 1944–31 October 1945 Now: Chico Municipal Airport (IATA: CIC, ICAO: KCIC, FAA LID: CIC)
The airport authority required the 5,000 ft (1,500 m) extension to ensure that cargo planes could depart fully loaded in summer heat. The longer runway was also required for the efficient use of the facility as the main transportation hub for the 70,000 troops a year traveling to and from the Army National Training Center at Fort Irwin.
The City of Porterville has been awarded a federal grant for $4.44 million towards the rehabilitation of the Porterville Municipal Airport Taxiway. The grant has been awarded by the United States Department of Transportation through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which provides grants to ...
The casino opened on June 1, 1996 in the Tule River Reservation in California.. In October 2019, "the assistant secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) signed a record of decision (ROD) and issued a secretarial determination giving the Tule Tribe its blessing to relocate Eagle Mt. Casino to a 40-acre site near the Porterville airport, 15 miles off reservation land," after determining ...
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.
Formerly known as Waynesville Regional Airport at Forney Field, it is served by one commercial airline with scheduled service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2021–2025, which categorized it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and ...
Meadows Field (IATA: BFL, ICAO: KBFL, FAA LID: BFL) is a public airport in Kern County, California, United States, three miles northwest of downtown Bakersfield. [1] It is the main airport for the Bakersfield area, and one of two international airports in the San Joaquin Valley, the other Fresno Yosemite International Airport.