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The Santa Rosa airfield was relinquished by the US Navy between 1946–48 and reactivated in 1951 for the Korean War. It was abandoned by the Navy between 1952 and 1954. It was reopened between 1966 and 1967 as a civilian airport named the Santa Rosa Air Center, and it permanently closed in 1991.
In the 1930s Santa Rosa had a small municipal airfield owned by Richfield Oil Corporation next to the Redwood Highway about 6 miles southeast of the present airport. Use of the 3,000-foot sod runway at the earlier airfield was discontinued during World War II as facilities at the present airport improved.
The museum building is the former dope and fabric shop for Santa Rosa Army Airfield. [13] Next to the museum, immediately to the north, is the airplane hangar used in the 1963 Hollywood all-star comedy movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Simultaneous development of NALF Santa Rosa was more extensive because poor site drainage caused periodic flooding of the Cotati field. Touch-and-go landing practice became the primary activity at the Cotati satellite airfield of the Santa Rosa Auxiliary Naval Air Station. Runway damage from 1945 flooding terminated military flight operations ...
Naval Outlying Landing Field (NOLF) Santa Rosa (ICAO: KNGS, FAA LID: NGS) is a military use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southeast of the central business district of Milton, in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States.
Santa Maria Army Airfield, Santa Maria; 483d Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Santa Maria Public Airport (IATA: SMX, ICAO: KSMX) Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Estrella Army Airfield. Santa Rosa Army Airfield, 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Santa Rosa; 493d Army Air Force Base Unit Now: Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
The Society's publications have been called the "newsletter" until 1980, "The Journal" from 1981 to 2001 and "Sonoma Historian" beginning in 2002. [9] In early August 2022, the SCHS held Finding History Day in Santa Rosa.
Category: History of Santa Rosa, ... Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport; Cooper's Sawmill; D. Downtown Santa Rosa truck attack; L. Santa Rosa historic landmarks;