Santa Barbara Airport

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Santa Barbara Airport Template:Airport codes, also known as Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) west of downtown Santa Barbara, California in Santa Barbara County, USA.

The airport is adjacent to the University of California, Santa Barbara and the city of Goleta. However, the land that the airport sits on was annexed to the city of Santa Barbara by a seven-mile long (approximately 10 km), three-hundred-foot wide (approximately 100 m) corridor, most of which lies under the Pacific Ocean. Much of the airport is between 10 and 15 feet above sea level, and it is bordered by the wetland area known as the Goleta Slough.

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

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[edit] History

Commercial service began in 1932 with Pacific Seaboard Airlines, and United Airlines inaugurated service from Santa Barbara/Goleta in 1936.

In the 1951 war film Flying Leathernecks, John Wayne's character was stationed in Goleta. The movie references the airbase as being in Goleta because, during War World II, the airbase had not yet been annexed by Santa Barbara. There is a short clip of the airport and surrounding area in the movie.

In addition to the runways listed below, the airport originally had an additional strip: runway 3/21. The development of the University of California, Santa Barbara (to the southwest) and the construction of hangars in support of production of the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy (to the northeast) were factors in the abandonment and eventual removal of this runway.

[edit] Future Expansion

Template:Future airport ex In early 2007, Santa Barbara exectutives tentiavely approved a $60 million project to expand the terminal, while keeping the "Santa Barbara Airport Experience” by building around the original 1942 terminal. Some of the features of the redesign are passenger loading bridges, making it so everything is contained in one building including car rentals, security, gates and the baggage tents<ref name="Overview of Expansion Project"> [1] http://flysba.com/pdf/terminal_project.pdf</ref> <ref name=" "> http://www.flysba.com/pdf/Council%20Terminal%20Pres%205-17-05.pdf</ref>

[edit] Airlines

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Commercial passenger terminal at Santa Barbara Airport.


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[edit] External links

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