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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.
This is a list of airports in California (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
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]
At approximately 10:30am, workers at the Fresno County Industrial Road Camp, located 21 mi (34 km) northwest of Coalinga, California, noticed the DC-3 trailing white smoke from its port engine. [3] The port wing suddenly ripped off, spilling nine passengers out of the gaping hole in the fuselage. [ 3 ]
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
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^1 Morocco temporarily suspends DST for the month of Ramadan. ^2 CHI is the common IATA code for O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD), Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW), DuPage Airport (IATA: DPA), Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA: GYY), Chicago Executive Airport (IATA: PWK) and Chicago Rockford International Airport (IATA: RFD).