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词条 Meadowlark Airport
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  1. History

  2. Meadowlark today

  3. References

  4. External links

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Meadowlark Airport was a small general aviation airport in Southern California, about a mile east of the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach. Meadowlark's IATA airport code was L16. The airport operated privately in the 1940s and operated publicly from the 1950s to 1989.

History

Meadowlark Airport was purchased in 1947 by the Koichi and Toyo Nerio[1] family, and their children Art, Yukio and Betty. Eldest son Art Nerio,[2][3] managed the airport from 1970 until its closure in 1989, and could be identified as a lone bicycle-riding figure keeping an eye on things around the eighty-acre airfield.

When the airport opened several other small airfields were listed nearby, including Huntington Beach Airport, a small field with one hangar and fuel facilities built on a peat marsh in east Huntington Beach. Meadowlark Airport was initially a short strip used mostly by students to practice touch and go landings. The runway was first extended to {{convert|1750|ft|m}} and paved, and then further extended to {{convert|2070|ft|m}} with room for 150 aircraft. A few hangars, a restaurant, and fuel facilities were also added.[4] The airport was between Heil Avenue and Warner Avenue. Plaza Ln. is a small street that runs through where the runway used to be.

Nerio planned to develop the airport into commercial buildings, offices and residential units.[5]

Meadowlark today

Occupying the former airport site is the Summerlane community, within which is the Norma Brandell Gibbs Butterfly Park.[6] Visitors to the park will note a plaque commemorating Dick Nerio and Meadowlark Airport.[7]

References

1. ^{{cite web | last = Matsunaga | first = Gail | title = Family Legacy to Support Building of OC Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum | work = Dateline | publisher = California State University, Fullerton | date = May 8, 2003 | url = http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/community/2003/nerio.html |accessdate = June 13, 2009}}
2. ^Epting, Chris, Legendary Locals of Huntington Beach, Arcadia Publishing, 2015, p 122, {{ISBN|978-1-4671-0186-8}}
3. ^Chris Epting (November 11, 2014), In the Pipeline: Ex-manager's birthday evokes Meadowlark Airport's high-flying legacy
4. ^{{cite book | last = Smith | first = Vi | title = From Jennies to Jets: The Aviation History of Orange County | publisher = Sultana Press | year = 1985 | location = Fullerton, California | page = 96}}
5. ^{{cite news| last = Billiter| first = Bill | title = Complaints Stall Airport Site Action | work = Los Angeles Times | date = March 4, 1993| url = http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-04/local/me-353_1 | accessdate = June 13, 2009}}
6. ^Norma Brandel Gibbs Park Sims Grove
7. ^{{cite book|last=Heywood|first=Mike|title=Century of Service: A History of Huntington Beach|year=2008|page=137|isbn=1-60643-981-2}}

External links

  • Frank & Anita's Electronic Meadowlark Airport
  • Paul Freeman's Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields:California
  • Banner Bob's Meadowlark memories
  • Gibbs Park/Summerlane community

3 : Defunct airports in California|History of Orange County, California|Huntington Beach, California

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