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Lindbergh encouraged the building of the airport and agreed to lend his name to it. [16] The new airport, dedicated on August 16, 1928, was San Diego Municipal Airport – Lindbergh Field, with 140 Navy and 82 Army planes involved in a flyover. The airport was the first federally certified airfield to serve all aircraft types, including seaplanes.
9780440066927. The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers.
Lindbergh Beacon (Los Angeles) Coordinates: 34.0536°N 118.2430°W. Los Angeles City Hall and active Lindbergh Beacon in 2005. The Lindbergh Beacon, an aircraft beacon atop the Los Angeles City Hall, operated nightly from April 26, 1928, until just after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was restored to its original condition in 2001, and Los ...
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled flight along the West Coast of the United States, from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco. On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A, registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos, [ 3][ 4] after being hijacked by a passenger.
9. Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 was a scheduled flight on September 25, 1978, by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), from Sacramento to San Diego ( SAN ), with a stopover at Los Angeles ( LAX ). The aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 727-214 [ a] ( registration: #N533PS), collided mid-air with a private Cessna 172 ( light aircraft; # ...
On December 11, 1935, negotiations between the City of San Diego and the U.S. Government were concluded which provided 23 acres (93,000 m 2) of tideland for the construction of a Coast Guard Air Station adjacent to Lindbergh Field, the municipal airport. This project had the strong support of many people and agencies, and particularly the ...
Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles, right, during a press conference with Casey Wasserman, chair of LA28, in Paris, France, on Aug. 10, 2024.
Point Loma, San Diego. / 32.67000°N 117.24194°W / 32.67000; -117.24194. Point Loma ( Spanish: Punta de la Loma, meaning "Hill Point"; Kumeyaay: Amat Kunyily, meaning "Black Earth") [ 1] is a seaside community in San Diego, California, United States. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the ...