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Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of
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Entrance to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport from Aero Drive
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Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in California
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945:. National Transportation Safety Board. September 25, 1978
1071:. National Transportation Safety Board. December 24, 1996
1027:. National Transportation Safety Board. November 11, 1983
1005:. National Transportation Safety Board. February 17, 1983
1093:. National Transportation Safety Board. August 2, 2010
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964:Accident description for PSA N533PS
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897:Sklar, Debbie L. (January 12, 2016).
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1327:Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport
1249:University of Oklahoma Press 2012.
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