| Aviation High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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2025 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Redondo Beach , California 90278 | |
| Coordinates | 33°53′15″N 118°22′43″W / 33.8874°N 118.3785°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Opened | 1957 |
| Closed | 1982 |
| School district | South Bay Union High School District |
| Principal | Hob Ulhs (1957–1966) Ted Gossard (1966–1978) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | approx 1700 (1982) |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Black and Orange |
| Mascot | The Falcon |
| Newspaper | Jet Stream |
| Yearbook | Talon |
Aviation High School (Aviation, AHS, Avi-Hi) was a high school located in Redondo Beach, California that was in operation from 1957 to 1982. The school occupied 40 acres at the northeast corner of Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Aviation Boulevard (which runs north to the Los Angeles International Airport). Their athletic teams were known as the Falcons and the school colors were black and orange.
Because of mushrooming growth in the South Bay, Los Angeles beach communities (Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, and Hermosa Beach), the school was built in 1957 (at a cost of 4 million dollars) by the then South Bay Union High School District which has today broken into the Redondo Beach Unified School District and the Manhattan Beach Unified School District; the district included two other high schools: Redondo Union High School and Mira Costa High School. Other proposed names for the school were Pilot George High, Will Rogers High, Kittyhawk High and—the second runner-up—Aileen S. Hammond High.
Aviation High School served students from both Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach. At its construction, Aviation's facilities—largely single-story buildings radiating out from a central quad—were considered "ultra-modern". In the late 1960s a large auditorium was added to the campus.