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36-496: The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport. Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 1,413,251 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 1,401,903 in 2009 and 1,451,404 in 2010. Located near the border between Los Angeles County and Orange County, Long Beach Airport serves the Los Angeles MSA . Due to its close proximity to

72-720: A "landmark" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in December 1935, and then at the Brooklyn Museum the next summer. In addition, she was the first of the group to lay out its theoretical underpinnings, which she did in the March 1936 article "New Content—New Form" in the journal Art Front , published by the American Artists' Congress . She was passionate about social justice and "adopted

108-587: A Naval Reserve Air Base, the mission was to instruct, train and drill Naval Reserve personnel. A ground school was offered three nights a week at the base and two nights a week at the University of California in Los Angeles until 1930, when ground school was continuously offered at the base. On April 9, 1939, training in night flight began, and shortly thereafter its facilities began to be used by fleet aircraft as well. With increased activity by airlines and

144-538: A Naval Reserve air base. On May 10, 1928, the U.S. Navy commissioned the field as a Naval Reserve air base ( NRAB Long Beach ). Two years later the city built a hangar and administrative building for the United States Army Air Corps as well. Significant developments to the little city airport began only after the city built hangars and administrative facilities for the Army and Navy in 1928–30. As

180-447: A limit of 15 daily flights was instituted. As of 2023, 41 daily flights are permanent, and 17 flights are supplemental (which are adjusted each year depending on noise budget results), for a total limit of 58 flights per day. However, many other types of flights take place, including charters, private aviation, flight schools, law enforcement flights, helicopters, advertising blimps, and planes that tow advertising banners. Long Beach airport

216-695: A month. Eventually, the city complied with the Navy's requests. The city remained hostile toward approving a lease on any additional land that the Naval Reserve now required. The Navy, fed up with the city of Long Beach, decided upon the purchase of some property owned by a Mrs. Susanna Bixby Bryant , a fact made known by the commander of the base, Commander Thomas A. Gray, to the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Admiral John H. Towers . The circumstances behind

252-669: A mosaic at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium (then the largest cut-tile mosaic in the United States); and Reconsideration of Time and Space . Clements married journalist Thayer Waldo in 1938, and the couple moved to the Bay Area in the late 1940s. In the 1940s, Clements stopped working as a painter and worked instead as an art critic. She contributed to Arts and Architecture and Art Front magazines, and also did radio commentary including

288-542: A survey for another site, unknown to city officials at the time. Admiral Ernest J. King , then the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and Admirals William D. Leahy , Joseph K. Taussig , and Allen E. Smith pointedly requested that the city of Long Beach repair the runways and reminded the city that the Pacific Fleet , then lying offshore in Long Beach and San Pedro harbors, had a payroll of more than $ 1 million

324-572: Is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world , with 398,433 aircraft movements in 2007. Long Beach Airport has one terminal in Streamline Moderne style that is a historical landmark and was renovated in early 2013. ATP Flight School operates a professional commercial pilot flight training program at Long Beach Airport/Daugherty Field. The first transcontinental flight, a biplane flown by Calbraith Perry Rodgers , landed in 1911 on Long Beach's sandy beach. From 1911 until

360-399: Is required to provide Congress with a five-year estimate of AIP-eligible development every two years. The NPIAS contains all commercial service airports , all reliever airports , and selected general aviation airports. This aviation -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grace Clements (artist) Grace Richardson Clements (1905–1969)

396-532: The Works Progress Administration . They depict aviation, navigation, and constellations. In the 1940s and 1950s the only airline nonstops from Long Beach Airport were to Los Angeles, San Diego, and sometimes Catalina Island ; in 1962 Western Airlines introduced a daily Electra to San Francisco and one a day to San Diego. Jet schedules began in 1968; in 1969 Western Boeing 737-200s flew to Las Vegas, Oakland, and San Francisco. In 1980

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432-516: The Army's ferrying work was an immense undertaking, thanks to Douglas Aircraft's wartime production. Ground was broken for the initial Douglas Aircraft facility in November 1940, with dedication in October 1941. Douglas had been drawn to Long Beach's growing municipal airport with its Army and Navy facilities. With wartime contracts, the company went into intensive production. The company's first C-47

468-690: The Long Beach Airport and produced the C-17 through 2015. The manufacturing facilities were leased to Mercedes-Benz and Relativity Space . Virgin Galactic established the satellite launch vehicles at the Long Beach Airport and operated by Virgin Orbit . Gulfstream Aerospace operates a completion/service center. The Long Beach Airport has an aggressive noise abatement program, with three full-time noise specialists. Under Long Beach municipal law,

504-627: The PBY, SNB, GB3, NH, GH, and SNJ. As the Navy's activities began to be shifted to Los Alamitos, the Long Beach Army Airfield at Long Beach became the home of the Army's Air Transport Command's Ferrying Division, with the 1736th Ferrying Squadron assigned, which included a squadron of 18 women pilots commanded by Barbara London, a long time Long Beach aviator. Like the Naval Air Ferry Command at NAS Terminal Island,

540-488: The airfield was given over to the war effort. In August 1941 the Civil Aeronautics Administration took over control of the airport, which had grown to 500 acres (2.0 km). Once Los Alamitos became an operational base in 1941, NAAS Long Beach now turned to servicing carrier-borne F4Fs, SBDs, FM-2s, F4Us, F6Fs, TBF/TBMs, and SB2Cs. In addition, it had utility aircraft and such patrol planes as

576-627: The airport to the Los Angeles County/Orange County border, where it becomes Ball Road and crosses the north edge of the Disneyland Resort ; Long Beach Airport is the second closest airport to Disneyland, after John Wayne Airport . On December 12, 2012, the Long Beach Airport completed a $ 136 million improvement project designed to modernize the main terminal without sacrificing its historic Art Deco architecture or reputation among travelers for convenience. It

612-651: The airport was created, planes used the beach as a runway. Barnstormer Earl S. Daugherty had leased the area that later became the airport for air shows, stunt flying, wing walking and passenger rides. Later, he started the world's first flight school in 1919 at the same location. In 1923 Daugherty convinced the city council to use the site to create the first municipal airport. Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan used to fly regularly out of Daugherty Field. Before his infamous flight from Brooklyn, New York , to Ireland in 1938, he had flown from Long Beach to New York. After authorities refused his request to continue on to Ireland, he

648-533: The airport with an initial four available slots. On July 9, 2020, JetBlue announced that they would end service to the airport in October 2020, instead expanding their operations at nearby Los Angeles International Airport . To attract the United States Navy , the City of Long Beach built a hangar and an administrative building and then offered to lease it to the Navy for $ 1 a year for the establishment of

684-591: The airport. Specifically, route 111 southbound from the airport connects at the Downtown Long Beach Station , where a passenger can transfer to the A Line northbound, and destinations in downtown Los Angeles . Route 104 connects to the Willow Street Station . Route 405 provides weekday service to/from UCLA . The San Diego Freeway (I-405) can be reached from the airport via Lakewood Boulevard (SR 19) . Wardlow Road runs from

720-467: The busier and larger LAX 20 miles away, the airport sees more domestic commercial passenger, cargo, military, and general aviation activity. The airport's placement near many residential areas has led to it having one of the country's strictest ordinances limiting airport noise. It is the 10th busiest airport in California based on passenger boardings, at 1.4 million. As of May 2018, JetBlue operated

756-399: The city can criminally prosecute the aircraft's owner and the pilots for breaking the noise ordinance. As the airport continues to grow and air traffic increases, so do the complaints about loud and low-flying aircraft. The airport produces a monthly noise and complaint report. Because of the noise abatement program, commercial (passenger or cargo) flights have been restricted since 1981, when

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792-410: The most airline flights out of Long Beach; the other airlines are American, Delta, Hawaiian, and Southwest. Air cargo carriers, including FedEx and UPS , also use LGB. 57,000 tons of goods are carried each year. The Boeing Company (formerly McDonnell Douglas ) maintains maintenance facilities for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas/Douglas aircraft (including the historic DC-9 and DC-10 aircraft) near

828-691: The neighborhood of Edendale . She taught art at the Chouinard Art Institute and Pasadena 's Stickney Memorial Art School . She had a 1931 solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in which 21 of her paintings were presented. In 1935, she became involved with a group of artists in Los Angeles known as the Post-Surrealists ; other artists in the group included Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg . With this group, she presented her artwork in

864-400: The only jets were Pacific Southwest Airlines flights to SFO. Between 1990 and 1992 Continental, Delta, TWA, and USAir ended service to LGB, and American Airlines left in early 2006. Alaska Airlines later ended mainline service, and ended codeshare service in 2015. Delta Connection Regional jet flights continue at LGB. In February 2016 Southwest Airlines announced plans to begin service to

900-525: The open-air feeling of the current terminal complex, and passengers still walk across the tarmac when boarding or leaving their planes. The baggage claim also is partially enclosed, as it was before. In February 2020, the Long Beach City Council approved of a new $ 80-million Phase II improvement project. The project includes a new ticketing building and the seismic retrofit of the historic terminal building. The project also includes moving

936-495: The private airplane industry, particularly with Douglas Aircraft showing an interest in the Long Beach Municipal Airport, the facility needed more space. With Douglas Aircraft as a resident, the attitude of Long Beach's authorities became openly hostile to naval aviation, with its city manager saying that "the sooner the Navy gets out of the Long Beach airport, the better we will like it." The Navy began

972-470: The purchase were revealed to James V. Forrestal , Under Secretary of the Navy, and by him to the House Naval Affairs committee who approved the purchase. Although Comdr. Gray had offered Mrs. Bryant $ 350 an acre, in the best patriotic spirit she sold the property at $ 300 an acre. With the site acquired, in 1941, construction funds soon followed and NAS Los Alamitos began to take shape. Upon

1008-404: The rental car area into the historical terminal building, new baggage claim areas, and a new meet-and-greet area. Design and construction began in 2020 and will continue through early 2024. The airport appears in: National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems ( NPIAS ) is an inventory of U.S. aviation infrastructure assets. NPIAS

1044-539: The theme of social engagement within an essentially Modernist vocabulary". She worked for the Works Progress Administration . Her works include the 1942 murals and ceramic tiles in the Long Beach Airport , collectively titled Communication (Aviation and Navigation) ; The History of Aviation , a Federal Art Project fresco painted with Jean Goodwin Ames at Charles A. Lindbergh Middle School in Long Beach;

1080-698: The transfer of the Naval Reserve Training Facility to Los Alamitos, to the surprise of city officials of Long Beach, in 1942, instead of returning the Naval Reserve Air Base facilities at Long Beach to the city, the Navy turned over the facilities to the United States Army Air Forces , which had established a training base next to it. NARB Long Beach was not totally abandoned but became a Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS). Through World War II

1116-473: Was 3,330 by 75 feet (1,015 x 23 m), and runway 16R/34L was 4,470 by 75 feet (1,362 x 23 m). Both runways were removed. In the year ending November 1, 2023, the airport had 374,956 aircraft operations, an average of 1,027 per day: 88% general aviation , 9% airline, 3% air taxi , and <1% military. 398 aircraft were then based at the airport: 255 single-engine, 72 multi-engine, 37 jet, and 34 helicopter . Long Beach Transit Routes 102, 104, 111, and 176 serve

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1152-518: Was an American painter , mosaicist , and art critic . She was active as an artist in the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s. Clements was born in Oakland, California on June 8, 1905. She married Traverse Clements in 1923. They divorced in 1928. She studied art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson in New York City from 1925 to 1930. She moved to Los Angeles in 1930, settling in

1188-619: Was delivered 16 days after the attack of Pearl Harbor and another 4,238 were produced during the war. The plant turned out some 1,000 A-20 Havocs, not to mention 3,000 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 1,156 A-26 Invaders. With the end of the war the U.S. Navy abandoned any use of Long Beach Municipal Airport and with it the designation of Long Beach as a Naval Auxiliary Air Station. Long Beach Airport covers 1,166 acres (472 ha ) at an elevation of 60 feet (18 m). It has three asphalt runways: It has four helipads : Runways 16L/34R and 16R/34L were permanently closed on July 21, 2016. Runway 16L/34R

1224-667: Was developed and now maintained by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It identifies existing and proposed airports that are significant to national air transportation in the U.S., and thus eligible to receive federal grants under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). It also includes estimates of the amount of AIP money needed to fund infrastructure development projects that will bring these airports up to current design standards and add capacity to congested airports. The FAA

1260-434: Was developed to improve the customer experience by providing resort-like amenities, having a central palm garden, outdoor dining areas with fire pits, wine bars, and 11 gates. A new 2,000-space parking structure was completed ahead of schedule and below budget. $ 5 million was spent to refurbish the old terminal, which was originally built in 1941 and declared a historic landmark by the city decades later. The new terminal retains

1296-403: Was supposed to return to Daugherty Field, but a claimed navigational error routed him to Ireland. He never publicly acknowledged having flown there intentionally. The main terminal building was designed by architects William Horace Austin and Kenneth Smith Wing and was constructed in 1941. The murals and mosaics were created by artist Grace Clements and completed in 1941, with the support of

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