Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport is 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown

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, in Sonoma County, California, United States. The airport is named after

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, the famed cartoonist of the ''

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'' comic strip, who lived in Santa Rosa for more than 30 years. The airport's logo features

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flying-ace attire atop his doghouse.

History

Military use

In the 1930s Santa Rosa had a small municipal airfield owned by

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next to the Redwood Highway about 6 miles southeast of the present airport. Use of the 3,000-foot sod runway at the earlier airfield was discontinued during

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as facilities at the present airport improved. Opened in June 1942 and known as Santa Rosa Army Air Field, the airfield was assigned to

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as a group and replacement training airfield. Known units assigned to Santa Rosa were: *

354th Fighter Group The 354th Fighter Group was an element of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Ninth Air Force during World War II. The unit was known as the Pioneer Mustang Group and was the first to fly the P-51B Mustang in combat. The group served as bombe ...

, March–June 1943 *

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, June–August 1943 * 363d Fighter Group, August–October 1943 *

367th Fighter Group 367th may refer to: * 367th Fighter Group, later the 133d Operations Group, the flying component of the Minnesota Air National Guard's 133d Airlift Wing * 367th Fighter Squadron Inactivated in 1945, then reactivated at Homestead Air Reserve Base ...

, October–December 1943 The 478th Fighter Group was permanently assigned to Santa Rosa in December 1943 and began training replacement pilots, who were sent to combat units overseas after graduation. The airfield was inactivated on January 31, 1946 and turned over to the War Assets Administration for eventual conversion to a civil airport.

Airline flights

From the late-1940s to the mid-1970s Southwest Airways and successors

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, Air West and

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served Santa Rosa. Southwest Airways Douglas DC-3s followed by Pacific, Air West and Hughes Airwest

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s mainly flew to

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. Commuter airlines flew STS to San Francisco ( SFO) until 2001 as well as to San Jose (SJC) at various times. In 1969 Golden Pacific Airlines (1969-1973) was operating six roundtrip flights every weekday between the airport and SFO as well as direct flights to Eureka, Lake Tahoe, Reno, Stockton and Ukiah with

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commuter turboprops During the mid-1970s Eureka Aero was flying nonstop to Eureka and Sacramento. In 1985 Westates Airlines

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turboprops flew nonstop to

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for several months before ceasing operations; their July 1985 timetable listed 38 round trips a week between STS and LAX. Other turboprop flights included

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Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San ...

s operated by

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for

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nonstop to SFO and San Jose SJC. In late 1989 American Eagle had three Metros a day to SFO and four a day to SJC. In 1995 Reno Air Express was operating

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nonstop service from Eureka/Arcata, Reno and San Jose flown by

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on behalf of

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. In the mid-1980s United Airlines entered into a code sharing agreement with WestAir, a commuter airline that had previously served STS with

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s and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters to San Francisco. WestAir then began flying as

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to SFO until 2001. Westair operated

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and

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turboprops. In 1989 jet service arrived in Santa Rosa when WestAir operating as United Express began flying four weekday

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nonstops to Los Angeles, soon replaced with

turboprops with this service to

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then ending in 1991. The Westair BAe 146s were Santa Rosa's only jet flights until

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jets appeared on May 19, 2016 followed by

on February 16, 2017. WestAir formerly operated as Stol Air Commuter flying Britten-Norman Islanders and Trislanders to San Francisco. Stol Air Commuter had administrative offices in Santa Rosa. United Express left Santa Rosa in 2001 (and would not return until 2017) with the airport not having any scheduled passenger airline service for several years during the early and mid-2000s. In March 2007 airline service resumed;

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, a subsidiary of

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, began flights to Seattle/Tacoma and

operated with Bombardier Q400 propjets. Horizon then added flights to

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in late 2007, to

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in early 2008, and to

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in mid 2012. In early 2011 Alaska Airlines announced it would retire its Horizon brand, and all flights operated by Horizon now use the Alaska Airlines name. In June 2012 the airline ended flights from STS to Las Vegas. As part of an agreement between the airport, Alaska Airlines, and the local

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industry, it was announced in January 2012 that passengers were allowed to check a 12-bottle case of wine for free on all Alaska Airlines flights from the airport. All Alaska Airlines flights from Santa Rosa are currently operated with 76-seat Embraer E175 regional jets. E-175s currently fly nonstop to Burbank, Los Angeles, Orange County, Portland, San Diego, and Seattle.

New jet service

In March 2016

announced it would begin flying

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s nonstop to

McCarran International Airport and nonstop to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (IWA). The Las Vegas flight began on May 19, 2016 and the Phoenix flight several days later. At the time, the MD-83 was the largest airliner ever scheduled to Santa Rosa; as of October 19, 2016, Allegiant switched from the 166 seat MD-83 to the 155 seat

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. Allegiant ended flights to Phoenix-Mesa on January 2, 2017 and to Las Vegas on June 30, 2017 and no longer serves Santa Rosa. In October 2016

announced it would begin nonstop service between Santa Rosa and its hub in Phoenix (PHX) on February 16, 2017. The daily code share flight was being operated by SkyWest Airlines as

with Canadair CRJ-700s. American Eagle then added a second nonstop CRJ-700 roundtrip flight to Phoenix and currently operates one Canadair CRJ-900 roundtrip flight per day between Phoenix and Santa Rosa. American Eagle announced it would begin flying

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s nonstop to Los Angeles (

) effective May 3, 2019 and nonstop to Dallas/Fort Worth ( DFW) effective June 6, 2019. American Eagle currently operates nonstop jet flights to PHX and seasonally to DFW from Santa Rosa. In February 2017

announced their return to Santa Rosa with thrice daily service to the

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hub in San Francisco ( SFO). The flights began on June 8, 2017; SkyWest Airlines

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s operate the code sharing flights for United. United Express announced it would begin nonstop CRJ-200 regional jet flights to Denver on March 8, 2019 . However, United Express is currently not operating any service from Santa Rosa. In March 2017 Sun Country Airlines announced seasonal nonstop service between Santa Rosa and Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, to operate from late summer until late fall. Sun Country was operating weekly 162 seat

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s from August 24, 2017 through December 3, 2017, connecting via Minneapolis/St. Paul to

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, New York John F. Kennedy Airport and

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. Sun Country then continued to operate from the airport but had ended all service to

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and was serving Washington

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instead at the time. In May 2018 Sun Country Airlines made a surprise announcement that it would be adding a new seasonal destination from Santa Rosa with nonstop flights between STS and Las Vegas (LAS) in addition to its seasonal nonstop service between the airport and MSP. The Sun Country fleet is composed of Boeing 737-700s and

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s, which were the largest aircraft types serving the airport at the time. Sun Country left the airport in early 2020.

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began nonstop service to the

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(BUR) in the

area on April 28, 2021 and then subsequently added nonstop flights to Las Vegas with

mainline jetliners which are currently the largest aircraft type serving Santa Rosa in scheduled passenger service.

has since begun nonstop jet service from the airport to BUR as well. With the retirement of all Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft from the

fleet in late January 2023, all Alaska Airlines flights from Santa Rosa are currently operated with Embraer E175 regional jets.

Facilities

The airport covers at an

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of 129 feet (39 m). It has two

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runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concre ...

s: 02/20 is 5,202 by 100 feet (1,586 x 30 m) and 14/32 is 6,000 by 150 feet (1,829 x 46 m). In 2017 the airport had 79,231 aircraft operations, average 217 per day: 83%

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, 10%

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, 6% airline and 1% military. Three hundred fifteen aircraft were then based at this airport: 85% single-engine, 12% multi-engine, 2% jet, and 1%

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. In August 2013 the airport started a project to decouple the ends of the two runways and extend runway 14/32 by 885 feet, to 6000 feet and extend runway 02/20 by 200 feet, to 5202 feet. This project was scheduled for completion in November 2014. The influx of new passengers in the late 2010s left existing airport facilities under severe strain. As a stopgap solution, the airport invested in a $4-million "tent" to serve as gate 2, which opened on October 22, 2021. This has allowed the airport to double the area for outbound passenger seating, open a second passenger screening lane with TSA Pre Check capabilities, and replace portable restrooms with permanent units. As a more permanent solution, the airport has begun construction on an all-new terminal building. In the initial plan, the new terminal would add 19,000 square feet of new space at a cost of $20 million. However, as passenger growth surpassed projections, the project was expanded so that the new terminal would be 40,000 square feet (33,000 square feet of new space and 7,000 of renovated space) at a cost of $31 million. It will include a new gate 1 (replacing the old modular facility), additional space for concessions, an outdoor patio with seating and dining, a two new baggage claim systems, relocation of rental car desks, and a new ticketing lobby. Additionally, it will include space for two passenger screening lines, allowing them to be relocated from the gate 2 tent. The terminal broke ground in late 2020 and is scheduled to open in October 2022.

Ground transportation

The

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freeway is accessible to the airport via Airport Boulevard. Both short-term and long-term parking is available. Long-term parking is split into two lots within walking distance to the north and southeast of the terminal. A

Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) is a rail line and bicycle-pedestrian pathway project in Sonoma and Marin counties of the U.S. state of California. When completed, the entire system will serve a corridor between Cloverdale in north ...

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was constructed about from the airline passenger terminal on Airport Boulevard and shuttle buses are currently serving as the link between the two locations as this passenger rail service is now in operation. The airport is served by

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bus route 62. In addition, Mendocino Transit Authority routes 65 and 95 have limited pickups, and drop-offs by request. Sonoma County Airport Express buses also connect the airport with the

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and San Francisco International Airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Statistics

Other uses

Sonoma Air Attack Base

The Sonoma Air Attack Base of the

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(known as CDF or CAL FIRE) was established in 1964 at the northeast corner of the airport. Sonoma responds to an average of 300 calls per year. It has a battalion chief and a fire captain (air tactics group supervisors), a fire apparatus engineer (base manager) and six firefighters. Aircraft at Sonoma include one

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(Air Attack 140) and two Grumman S-2 Tracker air tankers (classified as S-2Ts, Tankers 85 and 86.) PcamSign

On average, the base pumps about of retardant a year. With the base's pumps, four loading pits and equipment, Sonoma has a possible peak output of of retardant each day. The base's immediate response area covers and includes Marin County and portions of the CDF Sonoma–Lake–Napa, Santa Clara, San Mateo–Santa Cruz, and Mendocino Units.

Pacific Coast Air Museum

The

Pacific Coast Air Museum The Pacific Coast Air Museum, in Santa Rosa, California, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving aviation history through the acquisition, restoration, and display of historic aircraft. The museum displays a varied collec ...

is at the southeast corner of the airport, next to the hangar used in the 1963 Hollywood all-star comedy movie, ''

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''. Known as the Butler Building, the hangar was built during World War II and is still in use.

References

External links

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