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Sep 3, 2019 · Handed back to the British, Christchurch continued to develop as a Ministry of Aircraft Production airfield for de Havilland. The airfield was closed in 1967, and most of the site was sold for light industry and housing development in 1979.
Jul 9, 2019 · On December 26, 1910, the young aviator Archibald Hoxsey took to the sky above Dominguez airfield located in present-day Carson, California. He joined the Wright brothers’ exhibition team the previous fall and had reached aerial fame with fellow pilot Ralph Johnson. Together, they were known as the Heavenly Twins.
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The staffed air traffic control tower was closed in July 1963 and the Aero Club closed in 1964. The airfield officially closed at the end of 1964, although the occasional aircraft used the airfield until around 1974. Today, the airfield site has been developed by the urban areas of Somerford/Mudeford. It is now a mix of housing and industry ...
Feb 17, 2022 · Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022. Source: By Jeff Horseman, The Press-Enterprise. (Tribune News Service) — Would you trade thousands of jobs for a 4,500-acre ghost town? The Inland Empire had no choice when March Air Force Base in California downsized in 1996.
Disaster struck the Flying Wing program on June 5, 1948, when a YB-49 crashed, killing all five crewmembers. Among the deceased was Captain Glen W. Edwards, who was honored when Muroc Army...
Oct 22, 2022 · An aircraft accident was the cause of his death on April 29, 1942. Lt. Bob Hazard had been piloting a Curtiss P-40 southeast of Darwin, Australia when he lost control of the aircraft, hitting a Lockheed C-40, which was positioned next to an airstrip. The crash killed General Harold George, Melvin Jacoby, and Lt. Robert Jasper.
Jan 22, 1993 · In a matter of 10 to 15 minutes a wall of water” hit the airfield. Brig. Gen. Don Lynch, base commander, said it would probably take a year for the 120,000-acre base to recover from the flooding.
