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Fullerton Municipal Airport

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approved Ordinance 514 in January 1927, formally establishing the airport. The council leased the land to the chamber for five years, at a fee of $ 1 per year, and the chamber, in turn, subleased operations to William Dowling and friend Willard Morris of
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Freeways. The airport and its industrial park are surrounded by residential areas. It is popular among private pilots traveling within the state of California, but there are occasional flights to and from Nevada, Arizona and Utah.
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The airport's "official" birthday is 1927. William and Robert Dowling, with the aid of H. A. Krause and the Fullerton
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After two crashes in eight days in 1992, Fullerton Airport faced calls for it to be closed, by the then-mayor of
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was filmed at Fullerton in 1929. Hughes would feature later in Fullerton's history by buying a tract of land for
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The airport is in the southwestern corner of Fullerton on Commonwealth Avenue, northeast of the junction of the
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Aviation Facilities Inc. (AFI Flight Training) is west of the control tower on the south side of the field.
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Fullerton Municipal Airport covers 86 acres (350,000 m) and has one runway and one heliport:
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used the former pig farm as a makeshift landing strip. The site later became home to a
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The airport also had scheduled passenger air service provided by
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General aviation airport serving Greater Los Angeles, California
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Fullerton Municipal Airport can trace its origins to 1913 when
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As of 2019 previously had commercial service but now does not.
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Index


IATA
ICAO
FAA
LID
Greater Los Angeles
Fullerton
California
U.S.
AMSL
Coordinates
33°52′19.25″N 117°58′47.22″W / 33.8720139°N 117.9797833°W / 33.8720139; -117.9797833
Runways
Direction
Asphalt
Helipads
Concrete
IATA
ICAO
FAA
LID
relief airport
Orange County, California
City of Fullerton
Santa Ana (I-5)
Riverside (SR 91)
barnstormers
crop dusters
sewer farm
Chamber of Commerce

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