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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.
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.
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]
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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
Chandler Airport opened in November 1929 and served as Fresno’s primary airport for civil and commercial aviation until 1948. Today, Chandler is mostly used by general aviation aircraft and is a designated as a reliever airport for the larger Fresno Yosemite International Airport , located 6.5 miles (10.5 km; 5.6 nmi) northeast which is ...
Harris Ranch Airport (FAA LID: 3O8) is an airstrip near Coalinga, California, next to Interstate 5. To the north of the airport is the Harris Ranch Restaurant and Inn. [2] The airport has been open since March 1981. [1] There is only one runway, 30 feet (9.1 m) wide and 2,820 feet (860 m) long. Parking and fuel are on the north end near the ...
On January 28, 1948, a DC-3 aircraft operated by Airline Transport Carriers with 32 persons on board, mostly Mexican farm laborers, including some from the bracero guest worker program, crashed in the Diablo Range, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California, killing all passengers and crew.