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Rosemead Airport (El Monte, California)

USA / California / Rosemead / El Monte, California / Rio Hondo Avenue
 airport, historical layer / disappeared object

Built sometime between 1941 and 1942. The buildings once located here can be seen in the movie "Court Marshal Billy Mitchell" starring Gary Cooper. This was also the first home of the Goodyear blimp when it was brought to California in the early 1950s. The blimp was based here for approximately six months before it moved to its permanent home in Culver City.

Fletcher Aviation Corporation purchased the airport from Bob and Jack Heasley in the 1950s and moved their operations here from Pasadena. Here they produced the FU-24 and the Fletcher Flair. The Fletcher plant was one of the first in Los Angeles to have a seismographic roof.

The airport was closed around 1962 coinciding with the sale of Fletcher Aviation to AJ Industries. By 1964, the buildings were bulldozed and the property west of the airport was sold to AeroJet Corporation. The former Fletcher Aviation plant became the Sargent Fletcher chroming plant, which was closed in 2010 and later razed.

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Coordinates:   34°4'11"N   118°3'37"W
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