Van Nuys Airport: Difference between revisions

In the 1950s, the California Air National Guard based [[North American F-86 Sabre]] jets at the airport and built new permanent facilities. In 1957, the airport's name would change one last time to Van Nuys Airport. In 1959, the [[Sherman Way]] underpass was finished, allowing the main runway (16R/34L) to be extended to its current length of {{Convert|8001|ft}}. By the end of the decade, Van Nuys was ranked as the 25th busiest airport in the nation in terms of operations, despite having no commercial air service.<ref name="History Pt. 1" />

In 1975, the Los Angeles Department of Airports (nowtoday [[Los Angeles World Airports]]) built the [[FlyAway (bus)|FlyAway]] bus terminal just east of the Van Nuys Airport. The terminal served as a remote parking lot for sister airport, LAX. Passengers would park at Van Nuys and board a bus for a {{Convert|20|mi|adj=on}} trip to LAX, helping to alleviate freeway and LAX parking congestion.<ref name="History Pt. 2">{{Cite web |title=VNY Airport History, Part 2 |url=https://www.iflyvny.com/news-and-facts/history2 |access-date=2021-10-15 |website=www.iflyvny.com}}</ref>

The California Air National Guard moved out of Van Nuys in 1990, with the [[146th Airlift Wing]] shifting to [[Naval Air Station Point Mugu]] (now [[Naval Base Ventura County]]) in [[Oxnard, California|Oxnard]]. In 1994, the now-vacated National Guard buildings became a critical operating site for the [[American Red Cross]] helped thehelping victims of the devastating [[1994 Northridge earthquake|Northridge earthquake]]. In the early 2000s, the former Air National Guard basefacility was converted into air operations and helicopter maintenance facilities for the Los Angeles Fire Department.<ref name="History Pt. 2" />

Today,In the 2020s Van Nuys remains one of the world's busiest general aviation airports, with 232,000 aircraft operations in 2020.<ref name="Aircraft Operations" /> A 2015 study found that the airport generates {{US$|2 billion|link=yes}} of economic impact and has created 10,480 jobs<ref name="VNY Economic Impact Report" />