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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.
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 ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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
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.
[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 ...
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
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.