Chino Airport

Chino Airport
FAA airport diagram
IATA: CNO – ICAO: KCNO – FAA LID: CNO
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner		County of San Bernardino
Location		Chino, California
Elevation AMSL		652 ft / 199 m
Coordinates		33°58′29″N 117°38′12″W / 33.97472°N 117.63667°W / 33.97472; -117.63667
Website		co.san-bernardino.ca.us
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
3/21	6,023	1,836	Asphalt
8L/26R	4,858	1,481	Asphalt
8R/26L	7,000	2,134	Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft operations			168,393
Based aircraft			947
Source: Federal Aviation Administration[1]

Chino Airport (IATA: CNO, ICAO: KCNO, FAA LID: CNO) is a county-owned public-use airport located about three miles (five kilometers) southeast of Chino, a town in San Bernardino County, California.^[1] According to the Federal Aviation Administration's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007–2011, this airport is classified as a reliever airport,^[2] due to its proximity to the LA/Ontario International Airport and the John Wayne Airport (in Orange County.^[3]

History

Cal-Aero Academy was an independent flying school at Chino Airport when World War II started. The U.S. Army Air Forces contracted with the school to provide primary flight training for Army Air Cadets. During the war, Cal-Aero operated the training base with Stearmans and BT-13s. The name "Cal-Aero" is preserved at the airport and it can be seen on several buildings.

After the war, hundreds of former combat aircraft were flown into Chino for disposal. This agricultural area was employed as a vast parking lot for former warplanes. Soon, the entire area was filled with a wide variety of planes - everything from T-6s to B-24 Liberators. Most planes met an undignified end in portable smelters which were brought there to melt down the warplanes into aluminum ingots.

Chino Airport is also the home of two aircraft museums, the Planes of Fame and the Yanks Air Museum, and the airport is recognized as one of the centers of aircraft restoration and preservation with several different companies that do this work located on the property of the airport.

Facilities and aircraft

Chino Airport covers an area of 1,097 acres (444 ha) which contains three asphalt-paved runways:^[1]

• Runway 3/21: 6,023 x 150 ft (1,836 x 46 m)
• Runway 8L/26R: 4,858 x 150 ft (1,481 x 46 m)
• Runway 8R/26L: 7,000 x 150 ft (2,134 x 46 m)

For the 12-month period ending March 27, 2006, this airport had 168,393 aircraft take-offs or landings, an average of 461 per day: 99.9% general aviation and <1% military. There are 947 aircraft based at this airport: 77 percent single-engines, 18 percent multi-engined, four percent jet-engines, and one percent helicopter.^[1]

See also

	United States Air Force portal
	Military of the United States portal

• Planes of Fame
• Yanks Air Museum
• List of airports in California
• California World War II Army Airfields

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.

• Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC, 2004.
• Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC

1. ^ ^{a b c d} FAA Airport Master Record for CNO (Form 5010 PDF), effective 2007-10-25
2. ^ FAA National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: 2007-2011
3. ^ Chino Airport at San Bernardino County Department of Airports

External links

• San Bernardino County Department of Airports
• FAA Airport Diagram (PDF), effective 20 October 2011
• Resources for this airport:
  • AirNav airport information for KCNO
  • ASN accident history for CNO
  • FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
  • NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
  • SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures for KCNO
• Airport information for KCNO at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.