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In 2001 the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority was created, and assumed jurisdiction over the airport in December 2002. [27] The Authority changed the airport's name from Lindbergh Field to San Diego International Airport in 2003, reportedly considering the new name "a better fit for a major commercial airport."
An HH-3F over CGAS San Diego, 1981. Lindbergh Field opened on October 16, 1934, on the Pacific Highway.The San Diego International Airport East Terminal opened on March 6, 1967, and the West Terminal opened July 11, 1979.
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; # ...
San Diego International Airport (IATA: SAN, ICAO: KSAN, FAA LID: SAN) (San Diego, California, USA) is a public airport located 3 mi (4.8 km) northwest of the central business district of San Diego, California, and also 20 mi (32 km) from the Mexico – United States border at Tijuana, Mexico. It is owned by the San Diego County Regional Airport ...
Consolidated Aircraft (and later Convair) had their headquarters in San Diego, California, on the border of Lindbergh Field (KSAN). Consolidated's first design was one of those purchased by Fleet from Dayton-Wright, the TW-3 primary trainer, sold to the U.S. Army as the PT-1 Trusty. In September 1924 the company moved from the Gallaudet plant ...
Tennessee : MEM / KMEM Memphis International. Texas : DAL / KDAL Dallas Love Field (lies within the class B surface area of DFW) DFW / KDFW Dallas/Fort Worth International. HOU / KHOU Houston–Hobby (class B secondary airport) IAH / KIAH Houston–George Bush Intercontinental. Utah : SLC / KSLC Salt Lake City International.
Formerly an independent naval air station, NOLF Imperial Beach is located in the city of Imperial Beach, on the U.S.-Mexico border, 10 miles (16 km) south of NAS North Island. The air station was known as Ream Field in the 1950s and 1960s. NAS North Island resembles a small city in its facility content and its operations.
Atlas rocket launching Friendship 7, the first U.S. crewed orbital space flight. Atlas-Centaur with Pioneer 10 on launch pad. Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee ...