Fullerton Municipal Airport is the last strictly general aviation airfield still operating in Orange County, California. It can trace its origins back as early as 1913 when barnstormers and crop dusters used the then vacant site as a makeshift landing strip. The airport’s "official" birthday is 1927; in that year the FullertonCity Council signed Ordinance 514, which formally established the airport.
The airport was the brainchild of brothers William and Robert Dowling, who enlisted the aid of H. A. Krause and the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce in petitioning the council for permission to turn the then vacant sewer farm into a landing field. The council leased the land to the chamber for five years, at a fee of $1 per year, and the chamber, in turn, subleased operations to William Dowling and friend Willard Morris of Yorba Linda.
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Complete Fullerton Airport history (http://www.calpilots.org/www.calpilots.org/cpanew/prior/Apr00/0400FeatureApt.html/)
FullertonMunicipalAirport (IATA: FUL, ICAO: KFUL), owned and operated by the City of Fullerton, is the last strictly general aviation airfield still operating in Orange County, California.
The airport is located in the southwestern corner of Fullerton on Commonwealth Avenue, northeast of the junction of the Santa Ana and Riverside Freeways.
FullertonMunicipalAirport can trace its origins back as early as 1913 when barnstormers and crop dusters used the former pig farm as a makeshift landing strip.
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