Riverside Municipal Airport (Riverside Arlington Airport, decades ago) , is four miles (6 km) southwest of downtown Riverside, the county seat of Riverside County,

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, United States. Scheduled flights to Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport (Arizona) on Western Express Air ended when that airline ceased operations at the end of May 2007. Runway 9/27 was paved about 1956 and Bonanza Air Lines appeared soon after; until 1969 it and successor

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flew DC-3s and Fairchild F-27s to LAX, Las Vegas, Palm Springs and beyond. Golden West Airlines served Riverside in the 1970s with nonstop and direct

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s to LAX. Riverside Municipal Airport has been home to

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Squadron 5 since 2005. "FedEx Express donated a Boeing 727-200F to California Baptist University for its new aviation science program. The aircraft will be on permanent display at the airport and will provide a working laboratory for aviation science students." The aircraft, N266FE (cn 21672/1538), is a Boeing 727-233/Adv(F).

Facilities

The airport covers and has two runways and one

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: * 9/27: 5,401 x 100 ft. (1,646 x 30 m),

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* 16/34: 2,850 x 48 ft. (869 x 15 m), asphalt * H1: 60 x 60 ft. (18 x 18 m), asphalt The runway has ILS, GPS, and

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approaches. Should there be plans to expand, the Airport's Master Plan supports lengthening runway 9/27 to . Runway 27 has a

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. The crosswind runway, RWY 16-34, is suited for smaller aircraft. Runway 34 has a

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General aviation

The airport is home to about 100 general aviation aircraft. *FBOs: *:Riverside Air Service *Airport businesses *:Capital Jet Management

References

External links

Riverside Municipal Airport
(official City of Riverside website)
Civil Air Patrol, Senior Squadron 5
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