California Airports

Santa Monica, Calif., city council members this week shelved the plan they introduced two weeks ago to pay flight school operators to fly student pilots away from the city’s airport for touch and go operations.

Stockton airport traffic increases – Passenger counts up from a year ago

The flight of a lifetime: Take off time for youngsters at Watsonville Municipal Airport

Pilots now have an opportunity to help the Recreational Aviation Foundation keep a valuable California airstrip open to the public.

Sacramento International Airport has received an $8 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration to help finance recent expansion, Rep. Doris Matsui announced Thursday.

At which Southern California airport can you walk right up to planes, visit a nature garden, see a vintage hangar, go on a 2-mile hike and afterward enjoy a bison burger, while taking in a panoramic view of the ocean?

Happy 4th of July from CalPilots!!! 

CalPilots Editor’s Note: Here’s the latest (proposed) lunacy from Santa Monica – obviously Santa Monica has more money than sense……

A just-released report from the Unleaded Avgas Transition Aviation Rulemaking Committee concludes that a drop-in replacement for leaded 100LL is not available, adding that an additional six years is needed to assess possible replacements.

Stripping a relic: Moffett Field’s Hangar One, Bay Area’s most famous skeleton, nearly naked