https://airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanBernardino_...
The stories he would tell of that place. Drug runners landing in the night and him chasing them off with a shotgun. People constantly coming around to try and steal things. The people that would fly in to say hello. He had a real community out there. There were some sad circumstances around the end of his life that meant he couldn't run it the way it should have been run and it fell into decay. My family sold it after his passing as the cost and complexity to run such an airport so far from everything was too much (on top of none of us being pilots). It was a sad event. These days I think it's a solar farm.
* It is important to note that usually, something like 98% of noise complaints come from 1-2 individuals, even in areas with thousands of residents.
(Side note to those who might know: beyond Juhu Aerodrome, does anyone know of any other such small airfields nearby?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_airports_in_E...
And also specifically former RAF stations (stations, airports and headquarters):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Royal_Air_Force...
Plymouth Municipal in Plymouth, NH. GA grass strip, I believe. Follow the signs towards Quincy Bog from 93. If you go through a covered bridge shortly after turning off 25, you're on the right road.
Blueberry Hill in Western MA. Private grass strip. Former(?) home of The Cookie Lady. PYO Blueberries. About 10 miles north of Upper Goose Pond cabin on the Appalachian Trail. Northbound hikers will appreciate it greatly if southbound hikers bring blueberries for the pancakes the next morning.
Post Mills, VT. Grass strip, has very active soaring and ballooning communities. Home to the Vermontasaurus and a great deal of other folk art-type stuff. Worth a trip if you're in our particular middle of nowhere already. No, I did not know Brian Boland. He died before we moved to the area.
Tonopah, NV is on there. I spent a night with my tent pitched in their hangar (with permission) in 2006 bike touring out west. That one remains active.
Post Mills is most definitely active and they release sailplane tows over our house regularly. Often you can find someone setting up for a baloon flight on a nice morning. I've driven by Plymouth Municipal a bunch going to and from Rumney for climbing when I lived in Boston, and there were a bunch of planes last time I did that. Haven't been by Blueberry Hill in a while, but sure was happy to gorge myself on blueberries on my way to Katahdin in 2010!
Every so often I see a yellow Piper Cub flying by just above window height (we live on top of a hill with no obstructions nearby) and I've wondered if it was flying out of a nearby airfield that I had never seen but saw signs for.
It turns out that airfield is now closed, but as I was browsing, I came across a photo of a yellow Cub at another nearby airfield. Wrong angle to see reg. numbers but I wonder if it's the same one?
“The Santa Rosa Air Center was used to film Bruce Willis' 'Die Hard 2' in 1990
according to an article in the July 22 [2009] issue of the San Jose Mercury News.
The airport was used to depict [Washington] Dulles [International Airport] in the movie"
I love the Crissy Field section, considering what it is now and how recently it was being used.
https://airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm#cr...
I didn’t know about the field that used to be in La Grange, whose location is now a gravel pit (which, combined with another one on the other side of Joliet Road is responsible for the closure of a stretch of historic Route 66 although the gravel pit operators insist that despite quarrying to within a dozen feet of the roadway on either side, they aren’t responsible for the subsistence of the road.
Apparently the main motivation was to have a legacy...