Riverside Municipal Airport | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | City of Riverside | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Metropolitan Area | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Riverside, California | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 819 ft / 250 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°57′07″N 117°26′42″W / 33.95194°N 117.44500°W | ||||||||||||||
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Riverside Municipal Airport (Riverside Arlington Airport, decades ago) (IATA: RAL, ICAO: KRAL, FAA LID: RAL), is four miles (6 km) southwest of downtown Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States.[1]
Scheduled flights to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport (Arizona) on Western Express Air ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007.[2]
Runway 9/27 was paved about 1956 and Bonanza Air Lines appeared soon after; until 1969 it and successor Air West flew DC-3s and Fairchild F-27s to LAX, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and beyond. Golden West Airlines served Riverside in the 1970s with nonstop and direct de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters to LAX.
Riverside Municipal Airport has been home to Civil Air Patrol Squadron 5 since 2005.
In 2013, FedEx Express, a cargo airline, donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program. The aircraft is on permanent display at the airport and provides a working laboratory for aviation science students. The aircraft, N266FE (cn 21672/1538), is a Boeing 727-233/Adv(F).[3][4]
- ^ FAA Airport Form 5010 for RAL PDF
- ^ Western Air Express (official site)
- ^ A video of its arrival on January 10, 2013 can be found here.
- ^ "FedEx donates Boeing 727 to CBU Aviation Science program". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2013-02-03.