The airport was also a testing facility for several early US sailplane designs, notably those by William Hawley Bowlus (superintendent of construction on the Spirit of St. The original terminal was on the northeast side of the field, on Pacific Highway. The airport was the first federally certified airfield to serve all aircraft types, including seaplanes. The new airport, dedicated on August 16, 1928, was San Diego Municipal Airport – Lindbergh Field with 140 Navy and 82 Army planes involved in a flyover. Lindbergh encouraged the building of the airport and agreed to lend his name to it. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight and excited to have made his plane, the city of San Diego passed a bond issue in 1928 for the construction of a two-runway municipal airport. The site of Dutch Flats is on the other side of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, in the Midway neighborhood, near the intersection of Midway and Barnett avenues. Louis before his historic 1927 transatlantic flight. The airport is near the site of the Ryan Airlines factory, but it is not the same as Dutch Flats Airport, the Ryan airfield where Charles Lindbergh flight-tested the Spirit of St. Prior to the development of the airport, the area was a delta river outlet for the San Diego River into the San Diego Bay, which was then re routed to terminate to the Pacific Ocean parallel to Mission Bay.
San Diego International operates in controlled airspace served by the Southern California TRACON, which is some of the busiest airspace in the world. The airport's landing approach is well known for its close proximity to the skyscrapers of Downtown San Diego, and can sometimes prove difficult to pilots for the relatively short usable landing area, steep descent angle over the crest of Bankers Hill, and shifting wind currents just before landing. San Diego International Airport is the second busiest single- runway airport in the world. There are more than 60 nonstop markets in the US and abroad. The airport covers 663 acres (268 ha) of land. It is owned and operated by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. San Diego International Airport ( IATA: SAN, ICAO: KSAN, FAA LID: SAN), formerly known as Lindbergh Field, is an international airport three miles (4.8 km) northwest of Downtown San Diego, California, United States.
Statistics: San Diego County Airport Authority Sources: San Diego County Airport Authority, Alaska Airlines
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