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The airport is named after Brigadier General William J. Fox, "a Marine war hero, a movie stunt man, the first Los Angeles County engineer and, for 20 years after his retirement, a cowboy." [2] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. [3]
Lancaster Airport (California) a defunct airport in Lancaster, California; Other airports in places named Lancaster: Fairfield County Airport (Ohio) in Lancaster, Ohio, United States (FAA: LHQ) General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, California, United States (FAA: WJF) Kirk Air Base in Lancaster, South Carolina, United States (FAA: T73)
General William J. Fox Airfield (IATA: WJF, ICAO: KWJF) is in Lancaster. Hawthorne Municipal Airport (IATA: HHR, ICAO: KHHR) is in Hawthorne. Oxnard Airport (IATA: OXR, ICAO: KOXR) is in Oxnard. Palmdale Regional Airport (IATA: PMD, ICAO: KPMD) is in Palmdale. It previously had scheduled commercial service sporadically between the late 1960s ...
The airport was said to have 2 dirt runways in an “L” shape: 2,250' east/west & 1,350' north/south. A hangar on the southeast corner was said to be marked with “Lancaster”. On 28 July 1942 the airport was taken over by the United States Army Air Forces and used as a contract primary pilot training airfield under the AAF West Coast ...
This is a list of airports in California (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Brigadier General William Joseph Fox (December 23, 1897 – April 11, 1993) was a United States Marine Corps officer and engineer. Fox oversaw the construction various military airfields, including Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California and Henderson Field in Guadalcanal , both of which he commanded.
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In 1930, the facility was renamed Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and mostly served general aviation. The facility was pressed into service as a military airfield during World War II. The airport started its conversion into a major passenger airport in 1946, and in 1949 became Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The current U-shaped ...