Amboy Airfield is an abandoned
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
in the area of
Amboy, California
Amboy is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, in California's Mojave Desert, west of Needles and east of Ludlow on historic Route 66. It is roughly northeast of Twentynine Palms. As of 2020, the town's business district stil ...
, which was used primarily during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. The exact date of the airport's opening is undetermined even though the earliest reference to the airfield was published on June 5, 1925, in the ''
Oxnard Daily Courier''.
Airplanes occasionally fly in.
See also
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List of defunct airports in the United States
This is a list of defunct or abandoned airports in the United States.
Note: A more complete list of abandoned airfields in the US can be found at the website that is cited in many of the entries below.
Alabama
There are at least 68 in the state. ...
References
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Defunct airports in California
Airports in Los Angeles County, California