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The airport was opened in September 1942 as Porterville Army Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourth Air Force as a training base during World War II. It was a sub-base to Lemoore AAF, being used as a pilot training facility. Improvements to the site included a fueling system utilizing nine underground storage tanks.
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California — the United States Army Air Forces (1941−1947) were active during and immediately after World War II. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Palmdale Army Airfield Desert Center Army Airfield Gary Army Airfield Rice Army Airfield Muroc Flight Test Base. Ontario Army Airfield, 1-mile (1.6 km) east of Ontario; 311th Army Air Force Base Unit Now: LA/Ontario International Airport (IATA: ONT, ICAO: KONT, FAA LID: ONT) Salinas Army Air Base, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Salinas
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.
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport: Blytheville Army Air Field: Arkansas: 1942-1946 [11] Arkansas International Airport: Bruning Army Air Field: Nebraska: 1942–1945: Mid-America Feed Yard Condron Army Airfield: White Sands Missile Range: New Mexico: 1945–2015: Drone operations [12] Courtland Army Airfield Alabama: 1942–1946 ...
Prior to its civil usage, the facility was George Air Force Base, from 1941 to 1992 a United States Air Force flight training facility. The airport is home to Southern California Aviation, a large transitional facility for commercial aircraft. [1] As a logistics airport, it is designed for business, military, and freight use.
The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
Rankin Field was established by Tex Rankin in 1940 when he signed a contract with the War Department to open a school to train United States Army Air Corps flight cadets. . The "Rankin Aeronautical Academy, Inc." was established and in February 1941, the school began basic (level 1) pilot training in February 1941 at Mefford Field, located about six miles west of the still under-construction ...