Santa Barbara Airport (SBA/KSBA)

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500 James Fowler Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
(805) 683-4011
www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/flysba/default.asp

In the early 1930's, an airfield and flight school were established in Goleta, California that would later be named the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport.
In 1940, the Civil Aeronautics Authority recommended expanding the airfield in the interest of national defense which led to the city purchasing another 568 acres (2.30 km2) and building another terminal and filling in the Goleta Slough to make way for three runways.
After the outbreak of war, the United States Army Air Corps began to build revetments and station P-40 interceptors at the airfield. Commissioned on December 4, 1942 as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, the first Marine squadrons at Goleta came on June 14, 1942 with the arrival of Marine Aircraft Group 24 (MAG-24) and VMSB-243 and VMSB-244.

SBA occupies nearly 1000 acres of mostly Goleta Slough fill (the Slough still exists on Airport property between the Airfield and UC Santa Barbara).

Many airlines serve the Airport as of early 2005 with 45 daily departures to ten U.S. cities. In 2005, an estimated 900,000 passengers used the airport.

During the Reagan Administration, guests of the President and his guests (including Queen Elizabeth II and Premier Gorbachev) used SBA en route to the Western White House on East Camino Cielo.

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IATA: SBA, ICAO: KSBA