Half Moon Bay Airport (HAF/KHAF)

USA / California / Moss Beach / California State Route 1 (Cabrillo Highway), 9850
 airport, Second World War 1939-1945, aviation
9850 Cabrillo Highway
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
(650) 573-3701
publicworks.smcgov.org/half-moon-bay-airport

US Army air base during World War 2. Runway is 5,000 feet long, 150 feet wide. Alignment 12/300. Elevation 67 feet.
Half Moon Bay Field was authorized 15 October 1942 as an outpost of Salinas Army Airfield. At that time was the construction of a single runway on 110 acres of US Government owned land under the control of the Public Roads Administration of the Federal Works Administration. Actual construction was accomplished by the California Department of Public Works and the lengthening of the runway was accomplished by the Public Roads Administration and not the US Army Corps of Engineers. Available documentation indicates that the 110 acre tract was never formally transferred to the War Department and remained under the control of the Public Roads Administration until being aquired by the County of San Mateo in 1947.

Read more here: www.militarymuseum.org/HMBFlightStrip.html
www.globalair.com/airport/airport.aspx?aptcode=HAF
airnav.com/airport/KHAF
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_Moon_Bay_Airport
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Coordinates:   37°30'49"N   122°29'55"W

Comments

  • The airport also doubled as the "Half-Moon Bay Dragstrip" back in the 1960's. A couple of times a year National Hot Rod Association sanctioned drag racing events were held here. I attended such an event back in the mid-1960's.
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