New Coalinga Municipal Airport is three miles east of

Coalinga Coalinga ( or ) is a city in Fresno County and the western San Joaquin Valley, in central California about 80 miles (128 km) southeast of Salinas. It was formerly known as ''Coaling Station A'', ''Coalingo'', and ''Coalinga Station''. The ...

, in

Fresno County Fresno County (), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-most populous city in Cali ...

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, United States. It is owned by the city of Coalinga. The original Coalinga Municipal Airport was about 0.5 mile (1 km) north of the town center, just north of Cambridge Avenue and west of East Elm Avenue. It opened sometime in the 1920s.http://www.militarymuseum.org/LemooreELF.html Lemoore Emergency Landing Field. Retrieved 2012-01-17. traces of it could still be seen on aerial photographs and satellite images. The New Coalinga Municipal Airport was built in the late 1990s east of the town center, with an entrance road from West Phelps Avenue.

Facilities

The airport covers and has two runways (1/19: 2,500 x , 12/30: 5,000 x 100 ft) and one

helipad A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard s ...

(H1: 50 x 50 ft). In the year ending May 9, 2003 the airport had 2,400 aircraft operations, all

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* Airports in Fresno County, California {{California-airport-stub