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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.
[8] [9] By 1968, one of the Air West F-27 flights serving the airport was operating a daily southbound routing of Redding - Santa Rosa - Oakland - San Francisco. [10] In the summer of 1972, Hughes Airwest was operating two nonstop F-27 flights every weekday to San Francisco. [11] [12] However, by 1975 Hughes Airwest was no longer serving Santa ...
Desert Center Army Airfield Rice Army Airfield Gibbs Auxiliary Field Peik Auxiliary Field. Clover Field (Santa Monica Municipal Airport), 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Santa Monica; Delivery airport for Douglas Aircraft (A-20, B-18, C-47) Delivery airport for Vultee Aircraft (BT-13) Now: Santa Monica Airport (IATA: SMO, ICAO: KSMO, FAA LID: SMO)
In 1931, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1,000 acre (4 km 2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, paid for with nearly $480,000 raised by the citizens of Santa Clara County, [5] then "sold" the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon.
A model room includes dioramas of Santa Rosa Army Airfield and Santa Rosa Naval Auxiliary Air Station and a model of the USS Intrepid. [15] Other objects include an R-4360 engine, SR-71 parts, an F-4N simulator and DC-6 and RF-8G cockpits.
Sonoma County Airport station is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit train station in Santa Rosa, 1.1 miles (1.8 km) east of Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport. It opened to preview service on July 1, 2017; [4] full commuter service commenced on August 25, 2017. Until Phase 2 is completed, this will be the northern terminus of rail ...
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Santa Ana Army Air Base was an air base without planes, hangars or runways. The original locations were at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas and Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California. These three Centers were to train a total of 7,000 pilots per year.