In the 1930s Santa Rosa had a small municipal airfield owned by Richfield Oil Corporation next to the Redwood Highway about 4 miles southeast of the present airport.

Hovering over the municipal airfield in our helicopters, we caught soldiers red-handed as they transferred a load of refined cocaine to a stash house.

In 1950, Trans Canada Airlines inaugurated international flights to Tampa, prompting the city to rename the municipal airfield Tampa International Airport.

Like a few decades ago the planes could land at the municipal airfield located south of the city until later abandoned.

You would never know it because it is disguised as a typical, small municipal airfield.

The airplane fell from a height of 1,800 feet straight down into the municipal airfield, in front of over 40,000 horrified spectators.

This was the UK's first municipal airfield, and operated between April 1929 and early 1930.

Barton Aerodrome was opened on 1 January 1930 and was the first permanent municipal airfield in the United Kingdom.

Mines Field was opened as the airport of Los Angeles in 1930, and the city purchased it to be a municipal airfield in 1937.

In 1919 an early municipal airfield was carved out, later named Felts Field in honor of Herald owner Buell Felts who died in a plane crash there.