Long Beach, Daugherty Field (LGB) CA. USA

 

IATA: LGB – ICAO: KLGB – FAA LID: LGB
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		City of Long Beach
Serves		Long Beach - Los Angeles - Orange/Los Angeles Counties - Multiple "SoCal" Cities.
Location		Long Beach, California
Elevation AMSL		60 ft / 18.3 m
Coordinates
Website		Long Beach Airport
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
12/30	10,000	3,048	Asphalt
7L/25R	6,192	1,887	Asphalt
7R/25L	5,423	1,653	Asphalt
16L/34R	3,975	1,211	Asphalt
16R/34L	4,470	1,362	Asphalt

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DSp Pictures
Year	Nikon D80		Spot Location
	Digital	Jepeg
01.2010	Good quality		Around the airport & Douglas Park (formerly Mc Donnell Douglas Factory)

Terminal Passenger

  

Gulfstream's facility

Building of manufacturer MDC aircrafts

 

The 717 was the last commercial airplane produced at Boeing's Long Beach facility

  

  

Douglas Park 

MDC production delivery aera at Long Beach, California ended in 2006

with the last airplane being delivered to AirTran Airways, who were the 717's launch customer as well as its final customer. The final two Boeing 717 airplanes were delivered to customers AirTran and Midwest Airlines on May 23, 2006.

 

 

 

  

 

F-18 Navy n°265

F-18 Navy n°274

 

  

In 2011, the C-17 Globemaster III is the last aircraft being assembled at the Long Beach facility

  

  

  

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 Overview

Long Beach Airport has very little passenger service compared with the dominant Los Angeles International Airport(LAX) approximately 18 miles (29 km) to the northwest, and will always remain a relatively small airport because of restrictive ordinances adopted to minimize noise in the residential neighborhoods near LGB. The airport is under one of the strictest ordinances in the United Stateson both airport noise and the number of commercial flights. The current noise levels allow for 41 daily commercial flights and 25 commuter flights. Local community groups and activists are very vocal about any changes at the airport.

At the same time, the arrival of low-cost carrier JetBlueAirways at Long Beach Airportin2001, and thatairline's decision to establish a West Coast hub at LGB, has substantially increased the air traffic to the airportand hascementedLGB's standing as a viable alternative to LAX for flights from the Los Angelesarea to major East Coast cities. While JetBlueused the local noise ordinance to turn Long Beach Airport into a miniature fortress hub, it quickly reached maximum capacity and has since been forced to rework flight schedules and direct future growth to other Los Angeles area airports. JetBlue calls LGB a Focus city

  

Air cargo carriers, including ABX Air (DHL), FedEx and UPS, also maintain operations out of LGB. 57,000 tons of goods are transported each year.

History

The first transcontinental flight, a biplane flown by Calbraith Perry Rodgers, landed in 1911 on Long Beach's sandy beach. From 1911 until the airport was created, planes continued to use the beach as a runway.

The famous 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.

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 the 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 Corpsas well. It should be stated that the only 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.

Like the Naval Air Ferry Command at NAS Terminal Island, the Army's ferrying work was an immense undertaking, thanks to Douglas Aircraft's wartime production. Ground breaking for the initial Douglas Aircraft facility occurred in November 1940, with dedication in October 1941. Douglas had been drawn to Long Beach primarily because of the presence of the town's growing municipal airport and the presence of both the Army and Navy there. With wartime contracts, the company immediately went into intensive production. The company's first C-47 was delivered 16 days after the attack of Pearl Harbor, and another 4,238 were produced during the war. Additionally, 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 the Long Beach Municipal Airport facility completely, and with it, the designation of Long Beach as a Naval Auxiliary Air Station.

During the 1940s and 1950s the only airline nonstops were to Los Angeles, San Diego, and sometimes Catalina Island; in 1962, Western Airlines started one Lockheed Electra flight a day to San Francisco. Jets arrived in 1968; in 1969 Western had nonstop 737s to Las Vegas, Oakland and San Francisco, but by 1980 SFO was the only nonstop jet destination (on PSA by then).

In 1981, the startup airline Jet America started nonstop MD80 service to Chicago and, in 1982, to Dallas-Fort Worth. Alaska Airlines started nonstops to Portland and Seattle in 1982, and American started ORD and DFW, and United started Denver, in 1983. In 1984 United had two daily 767s to Denver, which surely were the largest aircraft ever scheduled into Long Beach.

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Mc Donnell Douglas & Boeing Company Facilities 

• Douglas Aircraft Company (later McDonnell Douglas and now part of Boeing) had plants at the Long Beach Airport where they built aircraft for World War II, and later built DC-8s, DC-9s, DC-10s, and MD-11s.

 

DC-8s

   

DC-9s

  

DC-10s

  

MD-80s

  

MD-11s

  

  

MD-90s

  

• Boeing built the Boeing 717 until 2006 and continues to build the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter in Long Beach. Even after greatly reducing the number of local employees in recent years, Boeing is still the largest private employer in the city.

   

  

ONE LAST TIME

717 production workers Bennie Johnson (left) and Rodrigo Mesquita reflect on the final Boeing 717 as it enters the moving assembly line last month in Long Beach, Calif. The airplane is the last of the McDonnell Douglas–heritage commercial planes. The Long Beach factory spans the Douglas, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing eras and has produced more than 15,000 airplanes since it opened in 1941.