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Royal Air Force station: Code: KI [1] Site information; Owner: Air Ministry: Operator: Royal Air Force: Controlled by: RAF Bomber Command * No. 1 Group RAF Eighth Air Force: Site history; Built: 1940 () /41: In use: November 1941 - 1946 () Battles/wars: European theatre of World War II Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 - May 1945: Airfield ...
The following 59 pages use this file: 1812 Ventura earthquake; 1927 Lompoc earthquake; Ballard, California; Betteravia, California; Buellton, California
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
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) Hawthorne Municipal Airport, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Hawthorne; Joint Use: United States Navy
The Santa Barbara County area, including the Northern Channel Islands, was first settled by Native Americans at least 13,000 years ago.Evidence for a Paleoindian presence has been found in the form of a fluted Clovis-like point found in the 1980s along the western Santa Barbara Coast, as well as the remains of Arlington Springs Man found on Santa Rosa Island in the 1960s.
The Gaviota Creek watershed is the largest watershed along this coast and is the most important steelhead stream in Southern Santa Barbara County. [40] Refugio Creek is one of the larger coastal streams along the coast and descends through a mosaic of commercial orchards, ranches, and rural residential developments and crosses under Highway 101 ...
In the early 1930s, an airfield and flight school were established in Goleta, California that would later be named the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Authority recommended expanding the airfield in the interest of national defense which led to the city purchasing another 568 acres (2.30 km 2) and building another terminal and filling in the Goleta Slough to make ...