Boulder City Airport was an

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, Clark County,

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, that operated from 1933 through the mid-1980s. It was also known as Bullock Airport during its early history.

History

Boulder City Airport was dedicated on December 10, 1933, although it appears to have been operational at least a month earlier, per a newspaper report of the era. On September 30, 1935, a plane crashed and burned at the airport after the pilot, Arizona businessman Gene Redewill, had attended the dedication of the nearby

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—although severely injured, Redewill survived. Airline service began on June 15, 1936, with

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. On April 3, 1938, the airport began

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service, linking Los Angeles and San Francisco eastward.

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(TWA) opened a terminal at the airport the following month, and operated at Boulder City through the late 1940s. In December 1949, the

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(CAA) suspended commercial flights from operating at Boulder City, due to its runways not meeting minimum standards, causing TWA to use McCarran Field near

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. The terminal building was sold in 1958 to the Boulder City

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, who continue to be headquartered there. Newspaper reports indicate the airport continued to operate for non-commercial flights through at least the mid-1980s. Boulder City Airport has been replaced by

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, which opened in 1990. The prior airport was located north of the current airport, much closer to U.S. Route 93.

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A 1958

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by the

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(USGS) shows the airport layout as three runways just southeast of

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. Historical airport directories described the runways as follows: {, class="wikitable" ! Year ! Publication ! Runways ! Lengths ! Comments , - , 1960 ,

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